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“Unequivocally profound...a timely and relevant text for young people of our generation.” - Zoé Stojanovic, The Ubyssey
Winner of the 2025 Tom Hendry Rachel Wyatt Award for Theatre for Young Audiences.
Ten cyborg-AI teens try to build a time capsule to prove they exist in case they're "retired" before graduation. Tracing their origins back to a mysterious piper in the town of Hamelin and an old puppet maker who discovers a talking block of wood, these algorithmic adolescents search for meaning in an ever-accelerating world of rapid obsolescence and hyperconnectivity.
The Breakfast Club meets The Terminator in this angsty sci-fi odyssey about youth, identity, and what it means to be human in a digital-dependent world. Developed with an ensemble of high school students, PYPER, is wildly inventive, eerily urgent, and will make you a follower.
PYPER is designed to meet the needs of High School and University educators and artists.
Photos from the University of British Columbia (photos by: Javier Sotres) and the Cawthra Park Secondary School productions.