FRAY Show - An Epic Quest

The FRAY Show premiered to sold out crowds at Sadler’s Wells, Lilian Baylis Theatre, 2024

The FRAY Show premiered to sold out crowds at Sadler’s Wells Lilian Baylis Theatre in June of 2024. FRAY pushed to the forefront of hip hop dance theatre, adding spoken word, rap and dialogue, and ventured into the virtual with “Lucious,” a digital AI character who speaks, raps, dances and battles with the real life characters on stage. The new FRAY prompted a burst of new music too, with tracks from Soweto Kinch, Micall Parknsun, Rommal Arasa, and other beat makers.

THE STORY OF FRAY

FRAY picks up Tullio and Ziya’s story in their late teens as their brotherly bond unravels when Ziya is lured into a spellbinding virtual world by Lucious, an AI character he “prompted” into existence for help for a video game contest.  The contest calls for building a great puzzle game, but as Ziya's growing illusion blurs his line between the real and virtual, the brothers are drawn into a real-life quandary in which restoring the frayed connections of their relationship means confronting the reality that people are the greatest puzzles of all.  Tullio and Ziya struggle with what it means to love a brother, and with the very nature of what it means to be human.