© Jasmine Aurora
‘Before the coronavirus lockdowns, I was a writer and producer of live theatre – but those activities, reasonably enough, were swiftly made illegal. So, I sat quietly in myinstead. It’s set in 2037, when everything that troubles us today is the same “but more so”. Environmental degradation has caused major population movements and, in Paris, there’s an underclass of unregistered citizens they call “Blanks” living parallel lives. Transgenic diseases persist in waves. Someone wants to bring it all crashing down – the hyperconnected world – and set back the clock of technological advance by fifty years or more. My hero has to try and stop them.