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Instructions for Correct Assembly
 

In a time when artificial intelligence is rewriting how we work, communicate, and even love, Instructions for Correct Assembly arrives on the Sydney stage with uncanny relevance. 

When Sydney couple, Hari and Max, purchase a build-at- home, artificially intelligent son, they are thrust into a journey of programming, socialising, and reassembling the future they lost. As they introduce their AI "child" to friends and move him into their late son's bedroom, the complexities of grief, pressure, and unmet expectations rise to the surface. The more they try to erase pain, the less human their lives become. 

Direct from London's Royal Court Theatre, by acclaimed playwright Thomas Eccleshare, Instructions for Correct Assembly is a theatrically inventive, morally tangled work that hacks the heart of the family unit and slices into the anxieties of modern life. 

★★★★ “Dazzlingly assured, funny and perturbing... Assemble at once to see it” – The Telegraph 
★★★★ “Thomas Eccleshare’s new play about parenthood is deftly done, funny and, at times, almost unbearably poignant” – The Times
 

26 June - 5 July | 7.30PM (Sunday 29 June, 5PM matinee) 
Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville
Tickets from $37 | More info at www.flightpaththeatre.org 

 

Event details

Venue: Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville
Bookings: www.flightpaththeatre.org/whats-on/instructions-for-correct-assembly
Start Date: Sunday 29 June 2025

Show commences at 7PM, approx running time 90 mins.
Note - Sunday 29 June is a 5PM matinee.

 

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