This hybrid performance was an exploration of the experiences of an American soldier with PTSD alternating with video accounts of and an Iraqi girl blogger. Much of the emotional environment of their stories was created through the visual elements. Evans, professor of playwriting at Georgetown is a social justice writer, and her choice of subject matter, poetic style, and collaborative work method were a perfect match for my artistic sensibilities. While the characters’ stories overlap and enmeshed with one another through live feed and virtual reality video, the scenery functioned as a container for the journey through the chaos. A drab government office transformed seamlessly into a virtual reality world of war torn Iraq, only to throw the characters back into an airless room in seconds. The multimedia design component, by Jared Mezzocchi, featured cutting edge virtual reality software on loan from a US government science program. It was an exhilarating challenge to work closely with a highly skilled video designer implementing sophisticated equipment that had never been used in a theatrical environment. This production remounted as Closer Than They Appear at Streetsigns Center, North Carolina in 2017.