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The side profile of a person with short cropped hair and multiple earrings in their ear. They are leaning up to almost kiss a blue and purple silhouette of a person. The silhouette person has a hand extended to cup the side of the other person's face.
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Girl in the Machine

Written by Stef Smith
Directed by Annie Kershaw

Mon - Sat, 7.45pm
Wed & Sat matinees, 2.45pm

The Clare

"The gap is getting smaller between the human and the hardware."

Polly loves Rowen but lately, that hasn’t felt like enough. Then Rowen brings home the Black Box, with its promises to cure depression, and in a flick of a switch changes everything. As Polly becomes more distant from the person she planned to share her life with, will her love for Rowen be enough to resist the draw of eternal bliss that the Black Box offers?

Genesis Future Directors Award 2024 recipient Annie Kershaw, directs an electrifying production of award-winning playwright Stef Smith’s Girl in the Machine. Starring BAFTA nominated Leah Harvey (Foundation, Small Island) and Sophie Melville (The Way, Iphigenia in Splott), this story of love in a fast-changing world comes to the Young Vic this autumn.

The Genesis Future Directors Award program is made possible by the Genesis Foundation. 

Design by Louise Richardson. Photography by Steve Gregson. 

Writer Stef Smith
Director Annie Kershaw
Designer Khadija Raza
Sound Designer Odinn Orn Hilmarsson 
Lighting Designer Lucía Sánchez Roldán 
Movement Director Nevena Stojkov 
Intimacy and Fight Director Yarit Dor
Associate Sound Designer Neil McKeown  
Casting by Jacob Sparrow 
Jerwood Trainee Assistant Director Neve Adams 

With Leah HarveySophie Melville and Jessica Temple

For biographies and headshots, please click here

Captioned performance: Wed 23 Oct, 7.45pm.
BSL performance: Thu 24 Oct, 7.45pm.
Audio Described performance: Fri 25 Oct, 7.45pm. Free Touch Tour is available to book from 6pm.

Captioned by Miranda Yates
BSL interpreted by Sumayya Si-Tayeb
Audio Described by Miranda Yates & Eleanor Margolies

Access concession tickets and seats reserved for accessible performances are now available to book online. Click here for more information about booking access tickets online.