By Proxy is a research-based, devised theatre company working with speculative fiction. Our work envisions the next 10-50 years looking at themes such as AI, climate crisis and enhancement technology alongside the current socio-political trends. We're interested in the embodiment of various future scenarios - understanding how big and abstract concepts might ripple down to day-to-day lives. We're interested in a near-future landscape that we, ourselves, will witness in our lifetimes. We then turn this into character driven dark comedy scenarios.
Our exploration is driven towards anxieties and hopes of marginalised and underground communities, where change is most pronounced. We're curious about the lives that we might live. We look at the future from a dual perspective believing that the technology itself has a potential to be both a positive and a negative force.
Our practice can be summarised in a simple 'what if?', a question we want to invite both our practitioners and our audience into.
