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The Time Machine

Dramatic Theatre · Benjamin McFadden · Ages 12+ · 90 mins · United States of America

Family Friendly Pay What You Can World Premiere

About the Project

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Victorian London, Puppets & Pay What You Can Tickets!

This production contains flashing llights

The Time Machine is a gender-bent reimagining of H.G. Wells’ classic science-fiction novel. Set against the backdrop of late 1800’s London, a young author receives an anonymous invitation to a display of scientific achievement beyond which has never been attempted in the modern world. When she travels outside the city to a glorious mansion, she finds herself in a mysterious setting orchestrated by one only referred to as The Time Traveler.

The Time Traveler recounts her story of traveling deep into the future in search for a better world or Utopia. She tells a wild tale of millions of years in the future, where she discovers a beautiful garden of eden populated by a tiny race of beings called the Eloi. When her machine goes missing, she’s forced to dig deeper into this new world.  It’s only when she encounters the Eloi named Weena that she discovers the ugly underbelly of this world. Pale, big-eyed and hideous creatures that de-evolved from several millennia of living underground, these monsters are called Morlocks.

The Time Traveler must now choose between finding her machine and returning to her time or helping to save Weena and this new world from the demons that haunt it. This subversive take on The Time Machine uses the foundation set forth by Wells and looks to bring it into the conversations we’re having in 2025 around class, privilege, gender and control. Embracing the simplicity and theatricality of the story; this production is alive with mask work, movement, music and puppetry.

Adapted & Directed by 14/48 Hollywood’s Artistic Director Benjamin McFadden with Puppet Design & Direction from 14/48 Hollywood’s own Ben Burris

For Fans of: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, The Woodsman, Slaughterhouse 5 (Book-it Repertory Theater)

Production Team

Mike Bowers

mike bowers *

actor/professor filby
Brandon Marino

brandon marino 

actor/the mayor
Benjamin McFadden

benjamin mcfadden *

playwright/director
Jessica Martin

jessica martin 

the time traveler
Benjamin Burris

benjamin burris 

puppet designer/director
Cassandra Ambe

cassandra ambe 

assistant director
Christie Coran

christie coran 

actor/the author
Rhiannon Brady

rhiannon brady 

actor/the psychologist
Matt Curtin

matt curtin 

actor/the editor
Monika Elmont

monika elmont 

actor/the doctor
Lily Chimenti

lily chimenti 

actor/weena
Nik  Doner

nik doner 

sound designer

* Fringe Veteran

the time machine