Brave New Normal

BNN is the original adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, translocated to a world, very similar to ours, in which mankind, for the sake of fairness and safety, lives isolated in an unreal bubble—“the New Normal”—subordinated to its own inventions: science, technology and social organisation.

 

Introduction:

Brave New Normal is a parable about the dehumanisation of human beings. In the dystopia described in this story, mankind lives isolated and subordinated to its own inventions: science, technology and social organisation. These creations have ceased to serve society; they have become its masters. Nearly a century has passed since Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World was published. In that time, our world has taken so many steps in the wrong direction that, if Huxley were writing it today, he would likely date this story not 600 years in the future, as he originally did, but in a close, close one—one in which people, for the sake of fairness and safety, lived in an unreal bubble, that they could have named “the New Normal”.  The price of liberty, and even of common humanity, is eternal vigilance.

Brave New Normal—A Virtual Parable is one of the highlights of the Global Culture International Festival, an artistic and academic encounter that celebrates our shared humanity through the arts. It includes a number of online and physical events in the UK, China and Malaysia, from the 3^rd to the 6^th of May 2022. For more details on the Festival visit:

• https://www.facebook.com/UNMUniPerArts/
• https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/arts/global-culture-festival/virtual-theatre-brave-new-normal.aspx

Adapted & Directed by Sergio Camacho, based on Aldous Huxley’s ‘Brave New World’

• Original Music: Sergio Camacho
• Assistant Director: Shamini Vasu
• Head of Production: Elynn Tan
• Production Design: Pixie T. and Elynn Tan
• International Unit Producer: Derek Irwin
• Artwork: Ignacio de Juana
• Poster Design: Sergio Camacho

Cast (in order of appearance):

Resident Controller, Mustapha Nakamoto: Derek Irwin 

Eliza, the Voice of the New Normal: Pixie T.

Thomas Tesla, Director of Hatchery and Conditioning: Sergio Camacho 

Elona Lovelace: Carmen Hew

Alanis Zuckerberg: Amanda Angela Danker

Ada Russell: Claudia Song

Bernard Musk: Choo Tze Shien

Helmholtz Leibniz: Edward Wong

Nurse Minsky: Jay Chow

Delta Janitor/ Nurse Turing: Caesar Pei 

John, the Savage: Hakeem Hisanuddin

Linda, the Mother: Izzati Nordin

Gamma Bokanovsky: Elynn Tan

Nurse Moore: Shamini Vasu