If a drone came down to earth to tell you her story, what would she say?

Drone is the tragicomic autobiography of the 21st century’s strangest and most frightening technology. With live poetry, music and video, this glitchy cabaret spectacular is a tender, furious and bleakly funny drone’s-eye-view of anxiety, violence, surveillance, work and survival.

Written by the Forward-shortlisted Scottish poet Harry Josephine Giles and performed by them with international sound artist Neil Simpson (Buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo) and live video artist Jamie Wardrop (Beats, The Dwelling Place), Drone is the astonishing culmination of five years of work. Directed by Rob Jones (Mammalian Diving Reflex, Paper Doll Militia), the performance is mixed new every night, the three artists making a live cabaret band for an intense and groundbreaking multimedia gig theatre. Drone was part of the 2019 Made in Scotland Showcase at the Edinburgh Fringe, supported by the Scottish Government.

Written and Performed by Harry Josephine Giles

Produced by Stephanie Katie Hunter

Directed by Rob Jones

Sounds by Neil Simpson

Live Visuals and Lighting Design by Jamie Wardrop

“A state of the nation address from a frayed electronic mind flying high above that nation and looking for a place to hit.”

★★★★

- The Scotsman

“Drone may be thematically complex, poetic, political, but it’s also electric theatre”

★★★★★

- Edinburgh Festivals Magazine