Blending Realities
2nd to 8th Nov 2020
Live at The Cockpit
and online
The Cockpit
Gateforth St, Marylebone, London NW8 8EH
Box Office 020 7258 292
Gateforth St, Marylebone, London NW8 8EH
Box Office 020 7258 292
About Talos
Talos Science Fiction Theatre Festival returns for its fourth instalment with socially distanced shows in the Cockpit, online interactive sci-fi & Zoom watch parties!
Experience live performances in meatspace in The Cockpit Theatre round, the magic of Zoom Theatre beamed directly into your living room or ground-breaking new shows that blend both.
Theatremakers & sci-fi writers showcase their work LIVE at the fourth instalment of the original SF theatre festival of London. Individual shows listed below - some are online, some in the Cockpit theatre and some exist in both dimensions.
https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/Talos-2020
ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT: 2nd November, 7PM. Sci-Fi Themed Theatre in the Pound (Scratch Night)
@TalosFest / #TalosFest / https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/Talos-2020
“Talos is an adventure to undertake for every science fiction and theatre-lover...”
(A Younger Theatre)
Talos - created in 2015 - is the first science fiction theatre festival of London, the UK and Europe, and it’s currently in its fourth year, after a third festival in December 2019. The 2020 festival takes place for 7 days, 2-8 November at The Cockpit and online (via Zoom.)
Alongside the festival, the fourth international Stage the Future conference on science fiction theatre will take place online 7-8 November. Launched in 2014, the conference was mentioned in American Theatre magazine as the event where the global sci-fi community of theatremakers gather, and is part of the company’s vision to promote sci-fi theatre on and off the stage. Follow @TalosFest to stay up to date.
Talos is produced by the London-based theatre company Cyborphic which is also organising the Science Fiction Theatre Research Lab workshop series and the Stage the Future conference on science fiction theatre.
Listings information. 2nd – 8th November 2020
Performances Online and at The Cockpit (Auditorium), Gateforth St, Marylebone NW8 8EH
Experience live performances in meatspace in The Cockpit Theatre round, the magic of Zoom Theatre beamed directly into your living room or ground-breaking new shows that blend both.
Theatremakers & sci-fi writers showcase their work LIVE at the fourth instalment of the original SF theatre festival of London. Individual shows listed below - some are online, some in the Cockpit theatre and some exist in both dimensions.
https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/Talos-2020
ONLINE LAUNCH EVENT: 2nd November, 7PM. Sci-Fi Themed Theatre in the Pound (Scratch Night)
@TalosFest / #TalosFest / https://www.thecockpit.org.uk/Talos-2020
“Talos is an adventure to undertake for every science fiction and theatre-lover...”
(A Younger Theatre)
Talos - created in 2015 - is the first science fiction theatre festival of London, the UK and Europe, and it’s currently in its fourth year, after a third festival in December 2019. The 2020 festival takes place for 7 days, 2-8 November at The Cockpit and online (via Zoom.)
Alongside the festival, the fourth international Stage the Future conference on science fiction theatre will take place online 7-8 November. Launched in 2014, the conference was mentioned in American Theatre magazine as the event where the global sci-fi community of theatremakers gather, and is part of the company’s vision to promote sci-fi theatre on and off the stage. Follow @TalosFest to stay up to date.
Talos is produced by the London-based theatre company Cyborphic which is also organising the Science Fiction Theatre Research Lab workshop series and the Stage the Future conference on science fiction theatre.
Listings information. 2nd – 8th November 2020
Performances Online and at The Cockpit (Auditorium), Gateforth St, Marylebone NW8 8EH
EVENTS
Diary
Monday Nov 2nd, 7pm
(Live - Online)
Theatre in the Pound
Sci-Fi Themed Special Edition of The Cockpit's regular Scratch Night of exciting new performances & works-in-progress.
Tuesday Nov 3, 8.30pm
(Live - Online and In the Cockpit Auditorium)
Genesis 37
Genome Theatre Company
An immersive, sci-fi Zoom performance. The story is placed in 2037, where an autoimmune syndrome has killed ¾ of the earth’s female population. The World’s Advanced Neuroscience Department (W.A.N.D), promises to save humanity from extinction by introducing human clones into the world.
Wednesday Nov 4th, 8:30pm
(Live - Online)
All Us Girls Have Been Dead for So Long
Carl Gent + Linda Stupart
In this low-fi sci-fi cli-fi musical extravaganza, Carl Gent and Linda Stupart animate the animal, alien, industrial and abject actors in our current climate apocalypse – most notably Ecco the Dolphin, who has lost their pod and must (like Eurydice, Orpheus and so on) travel deep beneath both time and space to rescue their missing and possibly dead kin.
Thursday Nov 5, 8.30pm
(Live in the Cockpit Auditorium)
Clouding Blue
Jarzgar
A new piece of queer sci-fi theatre exploring what might happen if a machine designed to give pleasure suddenly became so sophisticated that it developed a desire to receive pleasure itself and took itself off into the world in search of gratification. (The show contains nudity and sexual content.)
Friday Nov 6th, 8.30pm
(Live - Online via Zoom)
I am Echoborg
U-Soap Media
A funny, thought-provoking live show created afresh each time by the audience in conversation with an AI. The AI challenges humans to agree on the best possible outcome for relations between humans and machines. But the AI itself has its own agen,da and can also learn from the audience.
Saturday Nov 7th 8.30pm
(Live in The Cockpit Auditorium)
An Ice Thing to Say
Vertebra Theatre
Who cares what makes us human? Posthuman meditation is a story, an immersive audio drama, and a guided meditation on everything that we are and can be. Join us as we escape from our everyday reality, our human identity and form. Turn off the lights, focus on your breath, focus on my voice…
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