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