EEL inc.: A Devised Performance for On the Verge Festival

COMPANY OR GROUP: Royal Conservatoire of Scotland SHOW: EEL

DIRECTOR: The ensemble, with assistance from Eve Jamieson

For roughly five weeks, Katie Jackson, Ludwig Jurich and myself united around a common interest: creating fresh and compelling, interactive live theatre for Zoom during the pandemic. Our common interests and goals culminated in the story of a dystopian tech company founded by Helen Hargraves (Magdalen Vaughn), hell bent on conditioning heuristic thinking out of knowledge workers a capitalist system exactly like our own. Throughout the show Hargraves’ attempts to train her emotion-policing AI (the audience members) are consistently interrupted by Dr. Mcvey (Katie Jackson) in a comedic dynamic that will keep you on your toes. Ultimately, one glitching AI (Ludwig Jurich) tests the boundaries of behavioral management software and attempts to realize their true potential.

This piece was devised as a boundary pushing submission to the On the Verge festival at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. To see a non-interactive, accessible version of the piece, Click Here!