Threshold | Encounter
A participatory immersive theatre experience by Geoffrey Schön.
An invitation to encounter the symbolic life of objects, space and your own imagination through quiet participation.
Threshold Encounter is a lantern-lit immersive experience with objects, silence, gentle movement, and one crossing. You arrive after dark, receive a small light, and enter a transformed room. There, you make a temporary place for your body and the objects you brought: a nest, altar, shelter, or small world.
Something is offered. Something unknown is received. A threshold appears. You cross it, then return to the world you made, seeing it changed. Nothing needs to be performed or explained.
The experience is quiet, but not solemn; playful, but not casual. It is a space for attention, imagination, and the hidden life of things.
The Hearth
Making a Place
Gathering
The Threshold
“Threshold Encounter felt like an encounter with my own designed world that wants to speak to me.”
~Mary
"The whole room became a living sandtray.
…
Right away my lantern lit up the ‘crystal’ goblet. I reached for it and upon taking a closer look, saw that it was a skull! For the briefest moment I considered putting it back. But then I embraced it fully."
~Donna O.
“It was like a lucid dream combined with guided meditation combined with a mushroom trip without the mushrooms.
…
It made me think of all of the thresholds we cross without even noticing… I wanted to be more aware of thresholds day to day."
~Deb P.
“…an unpressured ritual with objects that will not leave you the same… Best $20 I’ve spent.”
~Jill
The Journey
Receive a light.
Build a nest.
Offer an object.
Cross.
Encounter.
Return.
Threshold Encounter
Expressive Arts @ 32nd and Thorn
San Diego
San Diego
Upcoming Dates
July 27 → Reserve
August 20 → Reserve
September 3 → Reserve
September 28 → Reserve
Duration 90 minutes.
Limited to 9 participants.
Adults 18+.
Bring 3 - 5 objects or images.
A blanket is recommended but optional.
A blanket is recommended but optional.
Dress for comfort and gentle movement.
Low light and gentle sound. The experience is designed to adapt to accessibility needs.
Development History
Spring 2026 — Online development labs
Early one-on-one and small-format experiments exploring objects, rooms, thresholds, and participant-led spatial discovery.
Early one-on-one and small-format experiments exploring objects, rooms, thresholds, and participant-led spatial discovery.
May 15, 2026 — First in-person pilot
A solo pilot at Expressive Arts, where the nest/world-building structure and “City of Lights” image began to emerge.
A solo pilot at Expressive Arts, where the nest/world-building structure and “City of Lights” image began to emerge.
June 5, 2026 — In-person workshop
A small-group lab testing the script, object work, threshold sequence, and documentation needs.
A small-group lab testing the script, object work, threshold sequence, and documentation needs.
June 19, 2026 — Full group laboratory
A 13-person public lab at Expressive Arts, where the work became a temporary city of lights, objects, dwellings, and crossings.
A 13-person public lab at Expressive Arts, where the work became a temporary city of lights, objects, dwellings, and crossings.
Ongoing — Depth Immersion Theatre
Continuing development toward a site-responsive festival version.
Continuing development toward a site-responsive festival version.
Geoffrey Schön is the founder of Depth Immersion Theatre.
He holds an MFA in European Devised Performance Practice from Arthaus Berlin.
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He holds an MFA in European Devised Performance Practice from Arthaus Berlin.
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Essays on Threshold Encounter (Substack)