Ashley House in Deerfield, MA

John Mills will be one of 3 actors participating in an immersive project in Western Massachusetts!

This is a performance research project funded by the National Endowment for Humanities and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. It involves an international team of theatre and digital design artist, from Greece to the UK, examining decolonizing museum sites and stories through immersive heritage design to see its effectiveness. It's led by Dr. Holly Maples, actor, director and Senior Lecturer in Theatre at the University of Essex in England.

This will be an Augmented Reality tour through the historic home of Rev. Jonathan Ashley highlighting the enslaved experience of Jin Cole and her son Cato! John Mills will be playing the role of Cato, also acting as guide and narrator. John’s voice will also be playing throughout the tour in the headset of visitors. Each visitor will also be wearing AR glasses so that they can see holographic images within each room as part of the experience!

There will be 36 showings. The intent is for this to be research into whether this innovative format is effective in telling and disseminating a broader context.

These performance will occur every hour from 10am to 4pm ET from May 18th through the 23rd. You can book at https://www.historic-deerfield.org/jins-dream.