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  • Machinal 2025

    Tues Oct 21 at 7:15pm
    Tickets £10 (+ booking fee)
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    Machinal 2025 is a story of survival under invisible systems. Reframing Sophie Treadwell’s classic, InCircle Ensembling confronts identity, AI, and algorithmic control in an ensemble-devised play that raises voices today.

    “What does it mean to be human when our choices are shaped by algorithms and unseen systems?”

    In this bold reimagining of Sophie Treadwell’s Machinal, the story is dismantled for the AI age, 2025. Shifting roles, immersive staging, and decentralised narratives reveal the fragmented truths of contemporary life, inviting audiences to confront their own complicity within invisible systems. Machinal 2025 exposes the forces that mechanise identity—and asks how we might reclaim our voices today.

    Presented by InCircle Ensembling, a theatre practice built on the belief that theatre begins where we gather in a circle. Initiated by director Jay Yu-chieh Chiu, it is not a company or troupe, but a collective of practitioners as narrators. The circle of Machinal 2025 includes Ale Dușa, Bianka Dublewicz, Diana Dublewicz, Eero Chen Liu, Ewa Emini, Henry Fong, Mahalakshmi, Pauline Chabosseau, Peixuan Gu, Saraswathi Sukumar, and Shervine Thompson.

    Supported by Camden People’s Theatre, Test Match programme. First debut.

    Content Notice
    Running Time 60 minutes
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Wheelchair Accessible
    Assistance dogs welcome
    Assistance dogs welcome
    Content Notice
    Content Notice16+ Depictions of violence and themes of trauma
    Health Notice
    Health NoticeFlashing lights, loud noises, visual effects, food / drinks consumed by performers

    Great theatre, lovely young team, brilliant supportive diverse programming, the only theatre I can think of that is currently supporting so many theatremakers.

    Programmed artist