The 1999 blockbuster is reimagined as a live show directed by Danny Boyle in a new Manchester venue.
Almost 25 years after its release, The Matrix has been reimagined as a live show directed by Danny Boyle to officially open the UK's biggest new cultural venue for years - and parts of the blockbuster film seem more relevant than ever.
While AI anxiety wasn't new in 1999, fears about its potential power have risen, as have questions about how our perception of reality can be manipulated in an age of alternative facts, whether we're as free as we think, and who's really in control. "That was as much as they could do then - cast an incredibly feminine action movie star, and mix the genders as much as they could.
Rather than being a direct retelling, the show is billed on posters as "The Matrix... Now", and brings it up-to-date with new parts about the hold algorithms and big tech corporations have over us.Boyle has created Free Your Mind with choreographer Kenrick "H2O" Sandy, composer Michael "Mikey J" Asante, set designer Es Devlin and writer Sabrina Mahfouz.
Sandy, who first worked with Boyle on the Olympics, runs hip-hop dance theatre company Boy Blue with Asante - but their first group was called Matrix.They also got deeply into the sequels, animated series, comics and games, some of which they have drawn on for the show. "So this is like a dream come true. This is a real opportunity.
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