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- Price
- £10 | £8 concession | £6 students
- Audience type
- 12+
- Running time
- 95 minutes including 10 minute interval
- Venue
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- Arts Centre Washington
Event description
In a world where likes define identity and AI blurs reality, Daniel Bye’s latest solo play, Imaginary Friends, offers a sharp, surreal, and darkly comedic exploration of modern existence.
After a personal tragedy, a struggling TV comedian starts listening to the wrong voices in his head. In the noisy world of 24/7 content vomit, it was already hard to tell good from bad – or real from imaginary. Now it has become impossible.
He embarks on a series of pranks for his TV show. Ethically dubious and often dangerous, they are rocket fuel for his falling ratings. As he loses ever more contact with reality, the stakes in the real world become dizzyingly high.
Like all Bye’s work Imaginary Friends is funny – up to a point. Beyond that point it is strange, disturbing, surreal and sad. And then it’s funny again. The new solo play by Daniel Bye, Imaginary Friends is a satire on satire, a comedy about comedy. It asks who we should listen to, and who we really are, in an AI generated world where the real me is whichever gets most likes.
Daniel Bye is one of the UK’s leading creators of head-spinning original work for theatre. His work has won multiple awards and toured around the world. This is his first new solo show for seven years. Don’t miss it.
Bye is an exceptional storyteller
Exeunt Theatre Magazine
Funny, wise, impeccably performed. […] Bye is one of the most astute and thoughtful contemporary theatremakers around.
The Stage
Fascinating, terrifying and thought-provoking
The Guardian