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An assembly of ten cyborg-AI teenagers known as REAL Kids are trying to build a time capsule to prove they exist. Or maybe . . . it's actually a play? Together they trace their origins back to the arrival of a strange piper in Hamelin in 1284-or was it an old puppet maker who carved a boy from a talking block of wood? The Alphas will be released any day now and they might not make it past the next update, so they'd better come up with something quick in case their models are "retired" before they even graduate.
The Breakfast Club meets The Terminator in this angsty sci-fi teen odyssey about what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world. Developed with an ensemble of high school students, PYPER pulses with the electricity, confusion, and wonder of youth, while asking urgent questions about rapid obsolescence, identity, and the cost of hyperconnection. Wildly inventive and daringly poignant, PYPER will make you a follower.
• This is the first play commissioned by the Cawthra Park Secondary School Drama Department.
• Susanna's favourite movie is The Matrix, followed by Star Wars, followed by most fantasy trilogies and Chris Nolan flicks. She saw Return of the Jedi in the womb.
• PYPER was commissioned and first produced by the Cawthra Park Secondary School Department of Drama on April 15, 2025.
Ten cyborg-AI teens try to build a time capsule to prove they exist in case they're "retired" before graduation. Tracing their origins back to a mysterious piper in the town of Hamelin and an old puppet maker who discovers a talking block of wood, these algorithmic adolescents search for meaning in an ever-accelerating world of rapid obsolescence and hyperconnectivity. The Breakfast Club meets The Terminator in this angsty sci-fi odyssey about youth, identity, and what it means to be human in a digital-dependent world. Developed with an ensemble of high school students, PYPER is wildly inventive, eerily urgent, and will make you a follower.
Cyborg teens race to be remembered before they're obsolete.
An assembly of ten cyborg-AI teenagers known as REAL Kids are trying to build a time capsule to prove they exist. Or maybe . . . it's actually a play? Together they trace their origins back to the arrival of a strange piper in Hamelin in 1284-or was it an old puppet maker who carved a boy from a talking block of wood? The Alphas will be released any day now and they might not make it past the next update, so they'd better come up with something quick in case their models are "retired" before they even graduate.
The Breakfast Club meets The Terminator in this angsty sci-fi teen odyssey about what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world. Developed with an ensemble of high school students, PYPER pulses with the electricity, confusion, and wonder of youth, while asking urgent questions about rapid obsolescence, identity, and the cost of hyperconnection. Wildly inventive and daringly poignant, PYPER will make you a follower.
• This is the first play commissioned by the Cawthra Park Secondary School Drama Department.
• Susanna's favourite movie is The Matrix, followed by Star Wars, followed by most fantasy trilogies and Chris Nolan flicks. She saw Return of the Jedi in the womb.
• PYPER was commissioned and first produced by the Cawthra Park Secondary School Department of Drama on April 15, 2025.
Ten cyborg-AI teens try to build a time capsule to prove they exist in case they're "retired" before graduation. Tracing their origins back to a mysterious piper in the town of Hamelin and an old puppet maker who discovers a talking block of wood, these algorithmic adolescents search for meaning in an ever-accelerating world of rapid obsolescence and hyperconnectivity. The Breakfast Club meets The Terminator in this angsty sci-fi odyssey about youth, identity, and what it means to be human in a digital-dependent world. Developed with an ensemble of high school students, PYPER is wildly inventive, eerily urgent, and will make you a follower.
Cyborg teens race to be remembered before they're obsolete.