THE FUTURE OF PARENTING IS HERE. AND IT’S NOT HUMAN.
Clock & Spiel Productions Presents | Instructions for Correct Assembly By Thomas Eccleshare | 26 June - 5 July | Flight Path Theatre.
ABOUT THE PLAY:
When Sydney couple, Hari and Max, purchase a build-at-home, artificially intelligent son, they are thrust into a journey of programming, socialising, and reassembling the future they lost. As they introduce their AI "child" to friends and move him into their late son's bedroom, the complexities of grief, pressure, and unmet expectations rise to the surface. The more they try to erase pain, the less human their lives become.
With echoes of Black Mirror and the emotional rawness of After Life, Instructions for Correct Assembly is a theatrically inventive, morally tangled work that hacks the heart of the family unit and slices into the anxieties of modern life.
“This play is razor sharp, heartbreaking and utterly of the moment. It captures the deep ache of parental love, the pressures of perfectionism, and our growing obsession with seeking technological solutions to emotional problems.” - Director Hailey McQueen.
The cast of six features Ben Chapple (Good Cop, Bad Cop, Stan/CW & Playing for Keeps, Network 10), Jacki Mison (Strangers in a Carpark), Jane Wallace, Nick Curnow, David Allsopp and Kyra Belford-Thomas.
★ ★ ★ ★ “Dazzlingly assured, funny and perturbing... Assemble at once to see it” – The Telegraph
★ ★ ★ ★ “Thomas Eccleshare’s new play about parenthood is deftly done, funny and, at times, almost unbearably poignant” The Times
Season Details:
26 June - 5 July | 7.30PM (Sunday 29 June, 5PM matinee)
Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville
Tickets from $37 | www.flightpaththeatre.org
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