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Interference

City Park, Glasgow

A few decades from now, a woman waits in a VR metaverse to do homework with her ten year old daughter. Read more …

In a care home staffed by advanced AIs, an elderly woman struggles to make a connection with her android carer.

A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect solution.

Interference is a trilogy of near future plays. Staged in an empty office block transformed with vivid projection and atmospheric soundscapes. It asks the question: will technology interfere with what we really need from each other?


The critical consensus

National Theatre of Scotland’s tech-horror trilogy Interference is a slick, atmospheric evening. But in the end, like last year’s iPhone, it’s just a bit outdated, the tales at its centre lacking the revolutionary bite needed to shake its tech-savvy, dystopia-weary audience.

Christine Irvine, Exeunt, 21/03/2019

Rather than aping the all-out speculative horror of Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror, these works are often surprisingly moving with a strong focus on flawed humanity and sympathetic performances from a versatile cast.

***(*)(*)Allan Radcliffe, 21/03/2019

If Interference is not a cheering evening of theatre, it’s both intensely thought-provoking about the possible futures we face, and exhilarating in reminding us of the huge imaginative energy that perhaps represents humanity’s best hope of finding a way through to better times.

****(*)Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 22/03/2019

With Simon Wilkinson’s by turns stark and celestial lighting working alongside Gail Sneddon’s video design, the four actors are freed up to have some fun amidst the show’s serious points.

****(*)Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 20/03/2019


Features about Interference

Interference: The National Theatre of Scotland vs AI

Joyce McMillan, The Scotsman, 05/03/2019

Hannah Khalil, Mona Pearson and Vlad Butucea--Interference

Neil Cooper, Coffee-Table Notes, 18/03/2019

Where and when?

City Park, Glasgow from Saturday March 16, 2019, until Saturday March 30, 2019.

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