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HAYWIRE: The Dark Side of New Technology at Drayton Arms Theatre
Dates: 22/03/2026- 23/03/2026
📍 Theatre: Drayton Arms Theatre
Lauren Dalboth
Drayton Arms Pub & Theatre, 153 Old Brompton Road, London, SW5 0 LJ
London,
Tickets: £15.00 Standard, £13.00 Concession
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This multigenre collection of short plays explores what happens when new innovations outpace human empathy, intelligence and agency. Across absurd comedy, psychological horror, and intimate grief, the collection interrogates humanity’s growing reliance on advanced systems designed to optimise, predict, replicate, and comfort. Meandering through the depths of futuristic underground postal labyrinths to the genetic blueprints of a grieving father’s ancestors, this collection presents a harrowing and shocking insight into the dark side of technology, asking: how far will technology take humanity before we’re left behind in its shadow? Features: Beyond the Grave (drama), Wonderful (thriller), Simon (comedy), and PostMax 6000 (comedy).
Beyond the Grave: A mysterious phone is delivered. When it rings, Reece answers it and finds his deceased father on the other end. Overwhelmed to hear his voice again and to learn that there is a way to bring him back to life, Reece starts to wonder if the rules of death are better left unbroken…
Wonderful: Ben signs up for a research programme for a new-age medical device. It can detect hereditary illness and diseases that he could develop…but it also lets him know, and hear, exactly how his ancestors died. As detections become increasingly intense, Ben learns that knowledge about death is better left untold — especially when it comes to children.
Simon: Simon has an all-inclusive getaway booked and paid for by his work. The location is perfect, the hotel is perfect, Simon is perfect. And so is Simon — the other Simon. And the other Simon. Wait, how many Simons are there?! Who’s the real Simon?!
PostMax 6000: The PostMax 6000 is invented! A vast underground postal system capable of delivering hundreds of letters across the country per second! But what’s this?! It’s just sucked Kinkelbert George inside! Will he be delivered to freedom? Or lost in postal purgatory?
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About the Theatre
The Drayton Arms was originally built in 1860 and then rebuilt to its current design in 1891.
Originally a function room the first theatrical use of the space was just after the war as a rehearsal room for many of the actors from the newly formed BBC TV who lived locally.
In 1985 The upstairs room at the Drayton Arms was then being used as a rehearsal studio for Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art. Hilary Wood had recently been appointed head of acting and at her suggestion it was decided to turn the space into a theatre to give the students their own performance space in central London.
In the autumn of that year the studio was converted into a theatre with the space being designed by Hilary and Newton Jones the technical director of the Academy.
The Drayton Studio - as it was then - continued in use for the next twenty years, with twelve public performances running each year. Many of the students who presented their work there have gone on to real achievement in Theatre, Film and Television.
The Theatre was used as a rehearsal space on and off for a few years with couple of public performances for charity in 2009.
In late 2010 it was decided to get the theatre back up and running on a more permanent basis. Work was undertaken to upgrade the space and then in April 2011 the theatre licence was granted and the Drayton Arms Theatre was reopened as a professional fringe venue.
From Shakespeare to new plays, musicals to improv, classics to comedy, we are always showing something new.
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