The title "DRONE" is written at the top in capital letters made of white screws. In the centre of the picture are the words multimedia, crime and story. The performer Gladstone Mahib, a mixed race person with short black hair, round glasses and wearing a grey jacket, is looking at the camera. Over them are a series of words resembling computer code, broken in a shape that follows their silhouette.
Theatre

Drone

Miss Air / Ventiquest

Edinburgh

Pleasance Courtyard
Pleasance Two

12:00

60 mins

14+ (Guideline)

From £14.00

All orders are subject to a handling fee of £1.50 per ticket, capped at £6.

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18th Aug - 31st Aug

Will machines take revenge on us? Dmitry Melkin, writer / director unites storytelling, dance and neural network-driven visuals into a single, evolving score. Performed by rising star Gladstone Mahib, the piece follows a machine striving to rediscover the human image, offering a speculative yet incisive vision of the future.

Language becomes soundscape, blending meaning, glitches, hypertext and layered quotations. Voices from Waters, Land, Catullus, Pushkin, Tennessee Williams, Philip Dick, Benjamin, Japanese poetry, ancient philosophy, the Bob and Alice bot dialogue, and the AlphaZero-Stockfish "immortal zugzwang", shape a contemporary cyberpunk lexicon.

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Date Time Information Price Actions
Tue 18 Aug 12:00 £14.00 Tickets
Wed 19 Aug 12:00 £14.00 Tickets
Thu 20 Aug 12:00 £14.00 Tickets
Fri 21 Aug 12:00 £16.00 Tickets
Sat 22 Aug 12:00 £16.00 Tickets
Sun 23 Aug 12:00 £16.00 Tickets
Mon 24 Aug 12:00 £14.00 Tickets
Tue 25 Aug 12:00 £14.00 Tickets
Wed 26 Aug 12:00 £14.00 Tickets
Thu 27 Aug 12:00 £14.00 Tickets
Fri 28 Aug 12:00 £16.00 Tickets
Sat 29 Aug 12:00 £16.00 Tickets
Sun 30 Aug 12:00 £16.00 Tickets
Mon 31 Aug 12:00 £14.00 Tickets

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Pleasance Two

Pleasance Courtyard

(Venue 33) Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh, EH8 9TJ

Nearest accessible bathroom

Pleasance One Foyer

Audience route

  • Located in the front courtyard
  • Step free access available -  please make your way to the information desk at the Courtyard or speak to security for access
  • Number of steps to access venue: 20
     

Lift

No

Wheelchair accessible

Yes

Assistance Meeting Point: Information Desk located within the main entry archway at the Courtyard.