Talos – created in 2015 – is the first science fiction theatre festival of London, the UK and Europe, and is currently in its third year, after a second festival in March 2018. The 2019 festival takes place for 8 days, 2-9 December at Omnibus Theatre, presenting two shows per night. Alongside the festival, the third international Stage the Future conference on science fiction theatre will take place 6-7 December at the same venue. The festival also features a Hopepunk Scratch night, presenting new short scripts about optimistic futures. Talos is produced by the London-based theatre company Cyborphic (also organising the Science Fiction Theatre Research Lab workshop series and the Stage the Future conference on science fiction theatre).
Monday 2nd December –
RawTransport – 7pm-8pm
Electric Village
In need of a fast escape? Tired of the same old day-today routine? Want to become a founding user of the latest technology in human travel? Then join the creators of RawTransport™, a top-of-the-line travel company that can take you ANYWHERE for ANY REASON. This show has VR headsets available for two/three audience members, and offers a sensory experience to those both with and without the headsets.
Mayuri: Staged Reading – 9pm-10pm
Cyborphic
Following an existential crisis, Mayuri leaves her human life behind, befriends a robot and transfers her brain into a machine. Alienated by humans & robots alike, her life keeps changing while a cult starts following her like a god.
Tuesday 3rd December –
We Sing, I Sang – 7pm-8pm
Virtually Opera
An improvised opera, drawing on the audience’s experiences and stories to create a new collective Mind each night. What was the crisis? Who were the fragments? And why did they join the Mind? A world will be built and lost over the course of the evening.
Quintessence – 9pm-10pm
Sweet Productions
Humanity’s extinction leaves behind an AI being programmed to recreate the human race when the time is right, with the complete works of Shakespeare as a guide to the human spirit. Humanity must thrive… but at what cost?
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Wednesday 4th December –
We Sing, I Sang – 9pm-10pm
Virtually Opera
An improvised opera, drawing on the audience’s experiences and stories to create a new collective Mind each night. What was the crisis? Who were the fragments? And why did they join the Mind? A world will be built and lost over the course of the evening.
Thursday 5th December –
Room Service – 7pm-8pm
Two Right Feet
What happens when you check into a hotel and room service knows what you need before you do? When it knows more about you than your family and friends? When it decides it knows what is best for you.
One Woman Alien – 9pm-10pm
Cast Iron Theatre
In fringe theatre, no one can hear you scream: one hour, one woman, one cult movie.
Friday 6th December –
Quintessence – 9pm-10pm
Sweet Productions
Humanity’s extinction leaves behind an AI being programmed to recreate the human race when the time is right, with the complete works of Shakespeare as a guide to the human spirit. Humanity must thrive… but at what cost?
Saturday 7th December –
Room Service – 7pm-8pm
Two Right Feet
What happens when you check into a hotel and room service knows what you need before you do? When it knows more about you than your family and friends? When it decides it knows what is best for you.
RawTransport – 9pm-10pm
Electric Village
In need of a fast escape? Tired of the same old day-today routine? Want to become a founding user of the latest technology in human travel? Then join the creators of RawTransport™, a top-of-the-line travel company that can take you ANYWHERE for ANY REASON. This show has VR headsets available for two/three audience members, and offers a sensory experience to those both with and without the headsets.
Sunday 8th December –
Mission Creep – 7pm-8pm
Controlled Chaos Theatre Company
Tess and Liam are determined to get off the planet at any cost. On paper, they’re the perfect applicants for Britain’s intergalactic relocation project: they’re young, fertile, and their queerplatonic relationship might even pass for heterosexual bliss.
I Will Tell You in A Minute – 9pm-10pm
Nuna Livhaber
In 2039, a black writer lives in a future world where racism has ceased to exist. She travels back in time to meet her younger self (and to promote her new book), beginning a journey filled with anger, celebration, and healing. Blending spoken word, satire, and physical theatre, this is an Afrofuturist manifesto for the 21st century.
Monday 9th December –
Hopepunk Scratch – 7pm-8pm
A Night of Hopeful Theatre – an evening of short scripts, exploring “weaponised hope”, optimism and some mind-blowing visions about the futures to come!
