As social interactions and daily routines continue to be disturbed by the COVID-19 pandemic, an online theatre production aims to highlight the potential of immersive and imaginative experiences in moments of isolation.

Good Things to Do challenges the viewpoint of how technology has become a negative aspect of everyday lives during a pandemic. While it has become an inherent part of any social interactions and the new online workspace, the production wants to shed a new light on how technology can disrupt the routine and the notions that isolation and individualism should be avoided.

"I was really interested in challenging how technology seems inherently alienating," said Christine Quintana, the production's co-creator.

"I find especially, like right now, it is so impossible to fathom what are our lives will be right now a year from now," she said. "And, you know, seeing so many things, seeing certain family members, doing certain social rituals, we have travelling, they are all off the table."

With these experiences no longer part of what she calls "real life situations," she said the production wants audience members to see the potential of seeing things differently in their isolation.

Its website encourages audience members to experience the production alone, but there is a collective aspect as well. Quintana said the production does not start until all members are present.

Quintana's fellow collaborators are violinist Molly MacKinnon and composer Mishelle Cuttler. Music, along with interface design from artist Sam MacKinnon, are central to the experience as well.

Good Things to do is hosted by the Nightwood Theatre, as  part of its Rumble Theatre Online Experience.

The production begins on Sept.27, and runs until Oct.2.

Listen to Christine Quintana's full interview here: