PAL: Your AI Care Companion
Citizens Theatre Young Co.
Do you feel overwhelmed? Burnt out? Anxious all the time?
Then you need PAL.
A psychotherapeutic algorithm designed to complement the health care system, created to learn and grow with you, PAL is your companion, PAL is your future.
Invented in 2022, by young care worker Nikki, PAL started off as a simple app made to alleviate loneliness, social anxiety and depression, a care-bot if you like. Now, it’s 2044, the NHS has collapsed, and PAL is everywhere.Listening, watching and growing, as a dependency on automation quickly escalates.
Set in a dystopian world where natural resources are running out, observation has become monitoring and the government is choosing profit over people, perhaps a PAL isn’t what we need, but is there a way back?
Venue
This production takes place at Tramway in the smaller performance space (T4). Capacity is limited.
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DATES
Date Time Information 12 May 7.30pm 13 May 7.30pm
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Cast & Creative Team
CAST
Gabriel Adams
Sabryna Brooke
Lomond Docherty
Jack Donnan
Morgan Ferguson
Janey Fulton
Nagad Hassan
Michael Harkin
Helena Main
Jenny Mckay
Jareen Meah
Aidan Ali Polat
Lewis Reid
Brianne SurgeonerCREATIVE TEAM
Writer Sara Shaarawi
Director Neil Packham
Set & Costume Designer Ailsa J Munro
Lighting Designer Stuart Jenkins
Sound Designer Rikki Traynor
AV & Sound Supervisor Rob Willoughby
Assistant Director & Assisting Community Practitioner (supported by Scottish Opera) Roxana Haines
Assistant Director (Birkbeck Trainee) Eleanor Felton
Photo Galleries
Recommended for ages 14+
PROJECT FUNDERS
Supported by:
PAL is a project delivered by the Citizens Theatre Young Co.
Find out more.
Content Warnings
The production includes:
- Strong language throughout
- References to cancer
- Descriptions and references to medical treatments and procedures
- References and discussions around mental health
- Fake blood
Support for the issues raised in this work can be found at Scottish Association for Mental Health.