M is the most useful person you’ve ever met. He’ll organise your diary, your new job, even your sex life. The only catch is that once M has come into your life, he’ll never leave. And he wants to know everything there is to know about you. M is the smart phone we all have in our pocket: the object that allows the biggest companies in the world to track our every move and make billions of dollars from our data, the object we spend more and more of our time staring at, often more time that we spend with our loved ones. For young professionals like Lucy and Sam, this is the price of living in 2026. But their parents Joe and Didi have had enough of this grubby bargain, and have decided to stand up to the forces of modern technology and forge a strikingly new path of their own.
Jeff James say: “when I first read Kate Atwell’s hilarious and biting satire on our toxic relationship to smartphones, what made it so powerful was that the play was saying something we all feel but don’t dare to say out loud. We become more and more dependent on these technologies and they exact a greater and greater price for it. Kate’s play anatomises the way we live now with a darkly comic and precise scalpel. I am thrilled to be bringing this timely and very funny play to Valmiera for its European premiere.”
