DEFRAG_ by Tom Lyall

A one-man science fiction epic.

DEFRAG_ spins a tender story of lost love and artificial intelligence into a global fable spanning the collapse of civilisation and the dawn of a post-human techno-future. But it’s not the end of the world.

In Tom Lyall’s eloquent, funny performance a damaged soul seeks a way to back up and recover the fragments of his life. Meanwhile, on the other side of the world, a digital archive management system called Madeleine begins to develop a mind of her own and things take a turn for the altogether stranger...

Part existentialist TED talk, part unlikely romance, DEFRAG_ is beautiful, profound, ridiculous, metaphysical theatre.

KEYWORDS: confessional soliloquy; Maurice Chevalier; light refracted through raindrops; love letters; nudity; what’s in the box?

Tom Lyall is a London-based writer and performer who has been a key creative contributor to some of the most exciting independent theatre of recent years. He is an associate artist of Shunt and long-time collaborator with Chris Goode. DEFRAG_ is his first solo work.