This Is The Cosmos is an intimate live theatre experience exploring humanity’s relationship with the universe through storytelling, reflection, and live science communication.

Written and presented by Astrophysicist, author, and National Science Communicator Ian Hall FRAS — creator of the acclaimed international touring production Wonders of Our Universe — the show brings audiences into a more personal encounter with the cosmos itself: one shaped by perspective, curiosity, and the enduring human need to understand our place within it.

Across the evening, Ian explores the ideas that changed humanity forever — from the moment our ancestors first looked upward and began mapping meaning onto the stars, to the realisation that the universe is older, stranger, and more alive with possibility than we ever imagined.

Through storytelling, science, and shared reflection, This Is The Cosmos unfolds as a thoughtful and deeply human journey through science and civilisation, exploring how our understanding of the universe transformed not only the way we see reality, but the way we see ourselves.

At its heart, the experience explores the extraordinary reality that, for a brief moment in cosmic history, the universe has become aware of itself.

That awareness is us.
This is the Cosmos.
And it is awake.