Drone

Edinburgh 2026

Will machines take revenge on us? Featuring Alan Cox on Screen. Dimitry Melkin, playwright and director, unites storytelling, dance and neural network-driven visuals into a single, evolving score. Performed by rising star Gladstone Mahib, the piece follows a machine striving to rediscover the human image, offering a speculative yet incisive vision of the future. Language becomes soundscape, blending meaning, glitches, hypertext and layered quotations. Voices from Waters, Land, Catullus, Pushkin, Tennessee Williams, Philip Dick, Benjamin, Japanese poetry, ancient philosophy, the Bob and Alice…

This is an archived listing from the 2026 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Drone is by Independent Theatre Production MissAir, listed under Theatre in the Fringe programme. It plays at Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance, EH8 9TJ, 18 August to 30 August.

The show runs 60 minutes and is suitable for ages 14+. Tickets from £14.