The Ontological Loop of John Mighton’s Possible Worlds

Abstract

The worlds in John Mighton’s Possible Worlds , built upon an interplay of ctional reali - ties and scientic theories of the multiverse, question the boundaries between the possible,impossible, ctional and real. The vanishing differences between dreams and realities, the things that could never have happened, those that have happened and those that have pos-sibly happened in Mighton’s play provoke the audience to search for the truth among the possible versions of reality that all implode into the mind of an individual whose physicalexistence is reduced to the brain in a vat. However, he is simultaneously both dead andalive, projecting, or gaining access to, in a state of quantum superposition, a multiverse of realities, all equally possible, realisable and real, in both the play and its lm version.