‘IF you had a time machine, where would you go?” It’s a game that, thanks to H.G. Wells’s famous 1895 sci-fi novella The Time Machine, most of us have played.
Some of us might fancy travelling back 4.4 million years to east Africa to see some of the earliest humans or to Copenhagen in August 1910 to hear Clara Zetkin address the historic International Socialist Women’s conference. The possibilities are, of course, endless.
In The Time Machine: A Radical Feminist Retelling, theatre company Jordan & Skinner (aka Melanie Jordan and Caitlin Skinner) opt for a dystopian near future in which four feminist activists are holed up in a survivalist bunker. The late-capitalist apocalypse is, they believe, right around the corner, and it is down to them to come up with strategies for survival, revenge and the eventual creation of an egalitarian society.
