The Weavers

A new extended reality (XR) performance tracing the plight of textile workers pressed to the brink by the unstoppable march of automation. The Weavers After the play by&nbsp;Gerhart Hauptmann Directed by&nbsp;Jay Scheib Premiering as part of&nbsp;<a href="https://mitfuturefest.org/festival-passes">MIT Future Fest</a> Performances<ul><li>Wednesday, September 30 at 7pm, Preview</li><li>Thursday, October 1 at 7pm, Preview</li><li>Friday, October 2 at 7pm, Future Fest</li><li>Saturday, October 3 at 2:30pm, Future Fest</li><li>Saturday, October 3 at 7pm, Future Fest</li></ul>All performances will take place in&nbsp;Building W97 at MIT (345 Vassar Street in Cambridge, MA). The&nbsp;Weavers&nbsp;is a new extended reality (XR) action-film-inspired performance based on Nobel Prize winner Gerhart Hauptmann's play from 1912. It centers a community of textile workers and their bosses whose understanding of labor, sense of faith, and humanity is pressed to the brink by the unstoppable march of mechanization, automation, and the free-fall collapse of empathy. #willAItakemyjob Generously supported by the&nbsp;MIT Center for Art, Science &amp; Technology (CAST) Please note that MIT Future Fest performances require the purchase of a&nbsp;<a href="https://mitfuturefest.org/festival-passes">Festival Pass</a>. Performances are free for those who present MIT ID at door. Performers Brad Burgess Parker Jennings Cristhian Mancinas-García Sally Rose Zuckert Jorge Rubio Mitra Sharif Hui Ying Wen Hugo Zasloff Nelson Creative Team Joseph Lark-Riley, stage design Peter Torpey&nbsp;with&nbsp;Anna Borou Yu, video and interactive design Yanyi Liu, camera Jonathan Fajors, clothes Christian Frederickson, sound design Xinyu Xu, lighting design Maggie Moore, Director of Production Zisan Ugurlu, dramaturgy Molly Bercutt, stage manager Jay Scheib, director

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