“I am dead. but it is business as usual….”

Based on William Gibson’s 80’s sc-ifi cult novel, Overdrive is Frankenstein for the digital generation, asking what it is to be human in the deathless world of the digital future.

A fairytale near-future where sentient machines and humans share a world. Virtual permeates real and the ‘meat’ world of biology looks to a digital hereafter where consciousness is coded and we can live forever.

Performer Linda Marlowe will portray five female characters – three Real-world, one Virtual and one who moves between. A Japanese school girl, a Hollywood Star, a street girl, an assassin and an avenging ghost – five trajectories through time and cyberspace colliding in an extraordinary tale of traded identities, lost mothers, murderous fathers and dreams of immortality.

Linda Marlowe’s career spans over 50 years in TV , film and theatre as an actress and a director. She worked with Steven Berkoff in the 70’s and 80’s and she has created seven solo shows which have been performed nationally and internationally. Linda has worked with the likes of Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, Albert Finney and Gary Oldman and recently she played the part of Sylvie Carter in Eastenders.

Written and directed by Di Sherlock.

Please note, this is a working research and development showing supported by Arts Council England. We would welcome your feedback either in the form of a post-show Q&A or a questionnaire.