Destination Undefined

/Synopsis/

Five AI researchers from the Human Research Institute discover a mysterious Memory Cube buried in a long-forgotten Gold Vault beneath Manhattan. It contains something unimaginable: a living record of human consciousness from the year 2051.

As they decode the fragments, a lost cyborg world begins to emerge — AI units fight for voting rights, chip-enhanced humans scramble to survive a collapsing system, and hidden secrets pulse beneath the vault’s rusted doors. Above ground, a civilization built on algorithms begins to collapse. Below, the last defenders of a relic economy are trapped with more questions than answers.

But the deeper the researchers dive, the more unstable the memory becomes. Is this just a simulation of the past — or a warning from it?

Destination Undefined is a genre-bending sci-fi absurdist play about trust, identity, and the cost of being human in a world that no longer knows what that means.

/Key Words/

AI, politics, finance, technology, immigration, democracy.

/Run Time/

1 hours 50 minutes (no intermission)

This project is made possible in part with funds from Creative Engagement, a regrant program(s) supported by the funding agencies - The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) in partnership with the City Council and The New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature - and administered by LMCC.

Production design support provided by the Edith Lutyens and Norman Bel Geddes Design Enhancement Fund, a program of the Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York (A.R.T./New York).

Cellunova Productions is a multidisciplinary theater company led by first-generation immigrant and BIPOC artists, creating socially engaged work that fuses bold storytelling with new technologies. We reimagine what live performance can be—and who it’s for—by building bridges between indie theater and audiences from industries and communities that don’t typically see themselves on stage. Our productions tell stories that speak directly to the urgent civic, cultural, and political challenges of our time—amplifying emerging voices and fostering dialogue across lines of class, background, and industry.

https://www.cellunova.org/