UK tour for Forster's dystopian view

Published: 11 December 2016
Reporter: David Upton

Gareth Aled and Maria Gray as The Machine in the original production in May 2016 Credit: Ben Bentley

Following a world première run at York Theatre Royal in May, Pilot Theatre and York Theatre Royal are to take their co-production of Neil Duffield’s stage adaptation of E M Forster’s The Machine Stops on a UK tour next year.

In a dystopian world where humans have retreated far underground, Kuno alone questions their now total dependency on technology to live and communicate with each other, but in his struggle to break out can he reach the Earth’s surface before the Machine stops?

Duffield’s adaptation of Foster’s chilling short story explores our increasingly intricate relationship with technology.

Hear writer Neil Duffield speak about this production in our podcast.

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