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Tag: Dystopia

To Be A Machine by Dead Centre

They say the only certainties in life are death and taxes. Transhumanists disagree with the first one. This Silicon Valley sub-culture treat death as a disease that can be cured if humans learnt to update our wetware for purely artificial …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on November 30, 2020November 30, 2020Categories BlogTags Digital, DocPerform, Dystopia, Internet Theatre, Lockdown, Theatre

The Domesticated Survival Play

Ella Road’s The Phlebotomist (currently playing at Hampstead Theatre) is part of a growing trend of plays dealing with surviving the everyday.  It has thematic resonances with Mike Bartlett’s Game, Philip Ridley’s Radiant Vermin and Lucy Kirkwood’s The Children, …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on May 9, 2018July 27, 2020Categories BlogTags Dystopia, Plays, Research, Theatre

Network at the National Theatre

This post originally appeared on the CityLIS blog

Paddy Chayefsky’s 1976 movie Network has been adapted for the stage by playwright Lee Hall. Network tells the story of Howard Beale, a middle of the road,  middle aged, going nowhere fast …

Author Joseph Dunne-HowriePosted on January 24, 2018July 27, 2020Categories BlogTags Digital, Dystopia, Plays, Research, Theatre

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