If Machines Could Cry

Name: If Machines Could Cry — Naomi Collier Broms
Start: 2026-10-27T20:30:00+01:00
End: 2026-10-27T21:25:00+01:00
Location: Zaal 3

Naomi Collier Broms

Tue 27 Oct 20:30 - 21:25

Performance

Tue 27 Oct 2026

20:30 - 21:25

Tue 27 Oct 2026

20:30 - 21:25

Zaal 3, Den Haag

De Constant Rebecqueplein 20-A

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Two women discover that they can read each other’s minds.

A new channel of communication has opened up between them. At first they are excited, elated.
They talk in circles, scheme, and speculate. In the mind of the other, they say what they cannot say
out loud. They feel seen, they’re living the dream of unlimited, immediate connection… So why is
it still so hard to understand each other?

If Machines Could Cry is a sci-fi exploration of intimacy and the technologies that bring us closer
together and farther apart. The human body is imagined as a living receiver: a channel that can
sense and amplify the inner thoughts of others. When communication is mediated through a body
turned machine, what does it really mean to listen to the ones we love?

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This performance is spoken in English and is No-Dutch Required

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Credits

concept, text, performance, dramaturgy Naomi Collier | co-creation, text, performance isabel wang pontoppidan | composition, sound-design George Demetriou | choreographic direction Roberta Maimone | photography Ikumi Maekawa