Is it time to break up with our phones?

The Cockpit is proud to present Super Connected – a feature-length film drama with live music addressing the impact of social media on families.  Created long before Netflix's smash hit Adolescence, it has never given a general release… until now.  With its critically acclaimed album performed live alongside the film, Super Connected fuses cinema, live music and on-stage performance in a powerful drama about the ticking time bomb of social media and Big Tech.

As the film rolls, Arnold performs on stage & screen accompanied by pianist Sarah Kershaw. With the scale of Radiohead & panache of Bowie Super Connected LIVE is a digital age take on the silent movie. With narration by Stephen Fry.

Full of wit, wisdom & terror, the show explores a family’s struggle with technology addiction.

Being pulled in & out of the screen by the attention-grabbing characters, Arnold, on-stage, grapples with what connection & intimacy mean in a digitally distracted world.

PhoneFreeze! Lock your phones in our pouches, pocket them, & break free from the digital grind before the show! Join us after for our 'Screenless Social' to chat with each other & the creative team.

"Any piece of art should have the audience leave with more than they entered the room with. Super Connected definitely succeeds : it is a hugely significant piece of work, containing a vital message, carefully constructed and brilliantly performed. Outstanding” – UK Fringe Review ★★★★

"The drama that predicted the smartphone crisis" - Sky News ★★★★

“‘A mammoth triumph, through Tim Arnold's immaculate songwriting and Kate Alderton’s superlative artistic stage direction. A reformation of the art of album-crafting”
– Brighton and Hove News ★★★★

“A lush, dynamic and dramatic piece about the enslavement and surveillance of our phone and computer screens” - Mojo ★★★★

"Super Connected is like a warning from the future... remarkably poignant, funny, ominous and heartrending” - R n R ★★★★

Explore the album before you watch the show:

https://superconnected.technology/the-album/
 

Music written and performed by Tim Arnold

Piano Sarah Kershaw. Choreography and dance Daniela Maccari

Film directed by Tim Arnold. Developed with, and directed by Kate Alderton

Produced by Nim Arnold for The Tim Arnold Company

https://superconnected.technology/superconnectedlive/

https://superconnected.technology/story/

Friday  6 June - 7:30pm