Enter Copy
By: Tanja Mastilo
At: Bådteatret
Playing: 27th November – 18th December 2024
Tickets can be bought here
Imagine if there were a piece of technology that could help you escape all your worries, fears and problems. If, for two hours every day, you could check out of this world and enter a better copy of it, and where you could control how your life would be..
We are in 2029, and our three protagonists Alice, Simon and Kendall are in a military lab, where tests are being conducted on groundbreaking technology that aims to help deal with human trauma.
Alice is a wealthy, retired, 60-year-old architect who has lost her husband and teenage son in a tragic accident.
Kendall, in his 40s, is a rich hedge fund investor trying to come to terms with his new wife suddenly leaving him for someone else.
Simon is a young, severely injured ex-soldier on a minimal military pension, who has strong unresolved feelings for his superior commander.
Despite their apparent differences, the three characters are forced to share a room during the entire testing procedure. It soon emerges that they each share deep, personal pain and a hope to escape reality daily – albeit briefly – because reality is just too hard to bear. What they all soon learn is that the solution might not be an escape but a meaningful connection to those that surround them.
ENTER COPY takes place in the same, near future world as our podcast series, How Copy, and, in a different setting, explores the same themes of escapism, trauma and technology.
Artificial intelligence is developing rapidly, and it won’t be long before AI will be present in all areas of our lives. While there will be benefits which undoubtedly will improve the quality of our lives, in ENTER COPY we explore whether some of it might come at the expense of human relationships.