Proto-type Theater to Present Scottish Premiere of A MACHINE THEY'RE SECRETLY BUILDING

Proto-type Theater presents the Scottish premiere of A MACHINE THEY'RE SECRETLY BUILDING, a wry exposé of spies, lies and surveillance, running Thursday 13 - Saturday 15 April at 8PM at Tron Theatre Changing House, Glasgow.

For tickets (£10/£7.50) and more information, visit www.tron.co.uk, or phone 0141 552 4267.

Written and directed by Andrew Westerside, the show charts a course from the 'Top Secret' secrets of WWI intelligence (via the moon, 1972's Chess World Championships, a disco in Oklahoma and the cafeteria at CERN) through to 9/11, Edward Snowden's revelations and the terror of a future that might already be upon us.

From what might be a news desk, an office, a bedroom, a bunker under a mountain or a theatre, two people - reporters, senators, freedom fighters, or just... well... concerned citizens think about what it is to speak up, speak out, blow the whistle and lift the veil...

Proto-type have combined original text and classified intelligence documents with film from digital artist Adam York Gregory, and music and sound design by Paul J. Rogers, to vent their frustration at the insidious machine of surveillance.

A MACHINE THEY'RE SECRETLY BUILDING is a powerful performance about how we got to the point where our governments are spying on us, and how that's changing who we are.

Proto-type are a company of multi-disciplinary artists led by Rachel Baynton, Gillian Lees, and Andrew Westerside. They create original performance work that is diverse in scale, subject and medium. Recently, this has included touring theatre (A Machine they're Secretly Building), a two-week long theatrical experience using pervasive technologies (Fortnight), a multimedia concert-performance featuring a live laptop orchestra and animation (The Good, the God and the Guillotine) and a radio drama with the BBC (The Forgotten Suffragette). They have been making work and supporting young artists in the US, the Netherlands, Russia, China, Armenia, France, Zimbabwe and the UK since 1997.

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