Proto-type Theater

A Machine they're Secretly Building

"A great antidote to 2017’s tangled political and cultural landscape"
Christine Irvine, Exeunt
"The kind of theatre that seeps into the sub-conscious"
★★★★ - Lorna Irvine, The List
"We are being called to arms. A Machine… is an alarm clock, waking us up"
★★★★ - Matthew Keeley, The Wee Review
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_ Time: 14.40
_ Duration: 60 mins
_ Venue: Red Lecture Theatre
_ Age Suitability: 14+

From what might be a news desk, an office, a bunker under a mountain or a theatre – two people speak up, speak out and blow the whistle on the insidious machine of surveillance.  A Machine they’re Secretly Building charts a course from the ‘Top Secret’ secrets of WWI intelligence (via the moon, 1972’s Chess World Championships, a disco in Oklahoma and the cafeteria at CERN) through to 9/11, the erosion of privacy, Edward Snowden, and the terror of a future that might already be upon us.

Press & reviews
  • Lorna Irvine, The List - read
  • Matthew Keeley, The Wee Review - read
  • Christine Irvine, Exeunt - read
  • various reviewers - read
  • ★★★★ - Broadway Baby - read
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