DIRECTOR’S NOTE
I’ve always been chasing the small spectacle — the play that unfolds in someone’s neighborhood and ends up in their fully designed garage, or the multi-faceted ARG that blurs just enough real life with just enough internet. I want the intimate apocalypse. I want to dazzle without relying on the usual tricks of the trade. Audiences are looking for stimulation and strangeness everywhere else — why not in the theatre? I trust they can handle far more than we often give them credit for.
The irony is that for being about AI, this piece has been painstakingly crafted by hand, by mind, by seven humans. Each artist has taught themselves something new, stretched their limits, and grown into stronger makers through this process. Unlike machines, they know how to evolve, adapt, and carve individual paths that merge into something whole. Something beautiful.
Stories are changing. How we reach for each other is changing. In many ways, this piece is about how monumental the act of adapting really is — for humans, and maybe for robots too.
Finally, thank you to all the friends I roped into helping with this project, and to my partner Owen, my greatest supporter and tireless PR photographer since 2022.
—Mishelle Apalategui