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Event date & time:
11.09.2016 at 18:15
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Location
Project Arts Centre
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Category
Arts/Entertainment
White Label presents
Override
by Stacey Gregg
9 – 17 September 2016 | Tiger Dublin Fringe - Project Arts Centre
A conflicting love story in a world of body augmentations, inflated class aspirations and dreams of a flawless life.
After a successful staging in UK in 2013 (directed by Selina Cartmell as a part of Watford Palace’s Ideal World season), Stacey Gregg’s Override has its Irish Premier at Tiger Dublin Fringe’16.
Override’s premise brings to mind Spike Jonze’s Her, Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner or some philosophical and dystopian episodes of Charlie Brooker’s show Black Mirror. The play represents a new wave of tech-concerned, trans-medial art, reflecting very current ethical debates and discoveries. However it asks the same concerned questions about the future that Chekhov posed over 100 years ago.
Mark and Violet have run away from technology-obsessed reality to raise their future child closer to nature. No enhancements, no bionic super-limbs, no shopping for perfect embryos. They want everything, from their flesh to their love to be real. But there’s no love without fear of loss.
Stacey Gregg won the Irish Times Theatre Award for Best New Play 2015 for her play Scorch, She’s also premiered Perve, Bodies and Shibboleth for Irish audiences in the past five years. Override examines the boundaries of our faith in science. It will be transformed by director Sophie Motley, designer Sarah Jane Shiels (Irish Times Best Lighting Design Award 2015), video designer Kilian Waters into a digital spectacle with visceral audio-visual design, an unsettlingly funny, bitter love letter to the future.
Listings Information:
Venue: Project Arts Centre (Upstairs)
Dates: 9 – 17 September 2016
Previews: 9 & 10 September
Time: 6.15pm
Matinée: Wednesday 14 September, 1.30pm
Tickets: €11 (P)/€16 (F)/ €14 (C)
Duration: 75 minutes
Booking Information: www.fringefest.com
