Séance: Lightning by Candlelight

The Experience

The Victorian séance was not a parlor trick. It was a genuine attempt — earnest, ritualistic, and extraordinarily effective — to reach across the boundary between worlds. In an era when science was indistinguishable from magic, mediums gathered small groups around candlelit tables and did something remarkable: the bell rang, the table rose, the voices came through. People wept. People believed. Then the modern world arrived. And the spirits went quiet.

Séance: Lightning by Candlelight attempts to recreate that experience for a modern audience — not as nostalgia, but as the genuinely strange and moving ritual it once was. A Victorian séance medium. A Colorado historian with a recovered artifact. And questions about one of history's most brilliant and troubled minds that have gone unanswered for over a century.

This is an interactive spectacle exploring Victorian séance tradition, Colorado history, and the science of what lies just beyond the visible world. Intimate enough to feel personal. Strange enough to stay with you.