Directors: Ben Kidd & Bush Moukarzel

Writer: Adapted by Mark O’Connell & Dead Centre from the book by Mark O’Connell

Producer: Natalie Hans

Set Designer: Andrew Clancy

Lighting Designer: Stephen Dodd

Composer & Sound Designer: Kevin Gleeson

Assistant Sound Designer: Jennifer O’Malley

Video Designer: Jack Phelan

Video Assistant: Laura Rainsford

Cast: Jack Gleeson

“Questions remain about its status as theatre”.

An early iteration of a future project, To Be a Machine (Version 1.0) is an adaptation of the Wellcome prize-winning book by Mark O’Connell: an exploration of Transhumanism, a movement whose aim is to use technology to fundamentally change the human condition, to improve our bodies and minds to the point where we become something other, and better, than the animals we are.

In the midst of a global pandemic, where our bodies have become biohazards, transhumanists offer a way into a disease-free digital age. We follow Mark from cryonic storage facilities to basement biohacking labs as he meets the prophets of our techno-future. We use the theatre to hold a wake for the very idea of congregating together in a room, and a meditation on humanity’s attempt to solve the modest problem of death.

Runtime: ~45 minutes.

Dublin Theatre Festival 2020

1-10 October, 2020. Project Arts Centre, Dublin.