Flyology

What happens when a system designed to optimise the future decides what no longer belongs in it? FLYOLOGY is a sharp, feral new musical about civilisation, control, and the things that refuse to be tidied away. At a high-profile tech launch, founder Callum unveils a predictive AI built to stabilise what comes next. Trained to identify disruption before it happens, the system promises calm, continuity, and progress without mess. It learns fast. It works beautifully. Until it doesn’t. When the system glitches mid-demo, three historical women are pulled into the simulation at full cognitive fidelity: Ada Lovelace, Ethel Smyth, and Emmeline Pankhurst. Brilliant. Inconvenient. Unoptimisable.

This musical is part of the Union One Act Festival.