Sockpuppet


A Show About Deepfakes and Grief. Told with Live Deepfake Technology. 

Who would you be, if you could be anybody? Sockpuppet is a new play about deepfakes: the new technology that allows anyone to pretend to be anyone else. Almost. Following the lives of three students exploring the thorny underbelly of the internet from their university flat, the piece explores how a new technology allows the past to bleed into the present. 

Originating from a collaborative devising process, the work explores the intersection between art, technology, and grief. Utilising live camera work, video projection and real-time deepfaking software, Buzzcut’s face-swapping spectacle is the first of its kind.

The play was first performed as a Work in Progress at the Burton Taylor Studio Oxford before being developed further between runs at the Edinburgh Fringe and VAULT Festival. It was then an Official Selection of the 2023 National Student Drama Festival. 

" Urgent, Intrepid and Gorgeously Performed from both Actors and Technology"

⭑⭑⭑⭑

- Binge Fringe


"Buzzcut Have Pulled It Off Perfectly" 

- The Oxford Blue



"Elegantly captures the zeitgeist with its slick video capture technology and gradual plot development."

- Everything Theatre


Company: 

Flo / Deviser: Lucy Mae Bean / Grace De Souza
Alfie / Deviser: Henry Waddon / Noah Radcliffe Adams
Tash / Deviser: Annabel Baptist 
Emily / Deviser: Georgie Dettmer

Writer and Director: Gabe Winsor
Assistant Directors: Ciana Russo, Ed Hodgson, Darcey Willing
Producers: Freya Hutchins, George Rushton, Nathaniel Jones
Assistant Producers: Nina Skrzypczak & Charlie Lovejoy 
Stage Design: Frances Gawne
Sound Design: Shaan Sidhu 
Lighting Design: Pen Hilder Jarvis
Graphic Design:  Iris Bowdler & Daisy Day
Welfare Officer: Paula McGechan
Marketing Manager: Amy Evans
Stage Managers: Roe Rajah and Charlie Lovejoy
Composer: Niky Pasolini
Script Supervisors: Flora Rugman, Helena Aeberli, Will Campbell


Performed:

Oxford Playhouse Burton Taylor Studio (WIP Performance): 8th - 12th March 2022

Edinburgh Fringe: 8th - 13th August 2022

VAULT Festival: 1st - 2nd February 2023

National Student Drama Festival, Leicester Curve: 8th April 2023


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