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MACHINA
One month ago, David Sergeant made the ultimate commitment to social media, choosing to forever separate mind and body by uploading his consciousness into social networking site Machina. An experimental and irreversible new process known as ‘Going Inside’, the user discards their need for a physical body and attains a kind of digital immortality in the cloud.
Now, as David’s family, friends and ex-lovers struggle to come to terms with his physical absence, questions are being asked about why this promising young man committed the equivalent of social suicide. Did he go willingly? Or was he pushed? David’s mother is determined to find out, even if it means reaching out to her son from the other side...
Set in an uncomfortably familiar world of carefully-constructed online profiles and disposable digital relationships, Machina is a bold and ambitious new play by Richard Jordan.
- drama
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- 6 total
- 3 female identifying, 3 male identifying
- lgbtqia+
- 18+
- adult, young adult
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AUSSIE THEATRE TALKS MACHINA WITH PLAYWRIGHT RICHARD JORDAN
JEMMA LANYON, AUSSIE THEATRE, 1 JUNE 2014
QLD Aussie Theatre writer Jemma Lanyon had the opportunity to chat with playwright Richard Jordan about his newest play, Machina (pronounced Mack-een-a, not Machine-a), which just finished a highly successful premiere season playing as part of La Boite’s Indie program.
REVIEW: THEATRE TRANSCENDS MAN AND MACHINE
NATALIE BOCHENSKI, SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 8 MAY 2014
"A man with a desire to expand his mind has his consciousness uploaded to the cloud. His physical body dies, and the loved ones he leaves behind must wrangle with the ethical dilemmas sparked by this brave new world."
REVIEW: MACHINA
ALISON COTES, CRIKEY DAILY REVIEW, 15 MAY 2014
"In Richard Jordan’s disturbing new play, the machine is a world-wide social networking called Machina, where all communication is via technology, mostly with on-line conversations. It literally takes over the lives of the participants, who rarely communicate face to face, or have any physical content."
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