TURN YOUR F***ING PHONES OFF tells the story of how we got here – you, Maxwell and everyone else. It playfully expounds on the rise of Big Tech, attention-hacking innovations and surveillance capitalism. It recounts Maxwell’s personal struggles with phone addiction, her bid for a life in analogue, and her bizarre chapter countering Kremlin-backed disinformation (cue Bond theme). And it sits you down on a train. The one you take all the time.
Performed in traverse with an immersive technical design by Benji Huntrods, TURN YOUR F***ING PHONES OFF has been dramaturgically supported by a stellar cadre of theatre-makers, including Ursula Martinez, Rachel Mars, Annie Siddons and Nick Cassenbaum.
Hi.
Thanks for making time for whatever this is.
I suppose it’s a theatre show.
Perhaps it’s an interdisciplinary, interactive, mixed-media piece of performance art.
A town hall meeting at the end of the world.
A karaoke booth in a nuclear bunker.
A clear-the-air chat
between you,
me
and the rest of our plane-of-existence-mates.
A thrilling and vital new work from one of the UK’s most exciting writer-performers, as voted for by audiences at last year’s BABYFLEAREINDEERBAG (“delightfully meta” ★★★★ The Guardian).
