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Everyone writes instructions to their future selves – but what if the future starts writing back?

Rosy Carrick has to build a time machine – because her future self has already done so and is now stuck 100 years in the past after a failed mission to save Russian revolutionary poet Vladimir Mayakovsky from committing suicide. Given that her knowledge of quantum physics is limited to the works of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rosy must summon the help of science’s greatest minds if she is to rewrite history and save herself…

Darting playfully between multiple narratives, this complex and emotional performance explores the realities of time travel and self-determination – taking in Bowie, motherhood and some most heinous hangovers along the way.

Winner of Brighton Fringe’s Best New Play Award 2018 and The Infallibles Award for Theatrical Excellence, Passionate Machine is a hilarious and searingly honest story about obsession, salvation and finding yourself – literally.

★★★★ ‘A truly fascinating and empowering piece’ – Broadway World

★★★★ ‘Surprising, audacious, original. Superb’ – Edinburghfestival.org

★★★★ ‘Playful, engaging, refreshing’ – The List

‘Elegant, delightful, heartbreakingly beautiful’ – Total Theatre

‘Excellent show – this is fresh writing at its very best’ – Fringe Review

‘Intelligent, articulate & funny… an entertaining hour full of warmth and compassion’– The Scotsman

‘Elegant, delightful, heartbreakingly beautiful’ – Total Theatre

‘A narrative of obsession with a clever and destabilising time-travelling framework, bags of wit and enormous heart… Carrick has crafted something genuinely one of a kind’ – Exeunt

‘Gorgeously crafted, clever and uplifting, it is a deeply original take on autobiography, unlike anthing I’ve seen before’ – Velvet Box Office