Dublin Theatre Festival review: Jack Gleeson and a VR twist in To Be a Machine 

Dead Centre get meta with themes of technology and theatre in To Be a Machine (Version 2.0)

A file picture of Jack Gleeson, the Cork-born star of To Be A Machine (Version 2.0). (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images)

To Be A Machine, Smock Alley, ★★★★☆

Back in 2020, Dead Centre gave us the first outing of To Be a Machine. The perfect Covid-era show, we were invited to see ourselves in the theatre we could not be in: as disembodied heads on tablet screens. It was an apt metaphor for a show exploring the post-human, based on Mark O’Connell’s deft 2017 book of the same name.