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PYPER

By (author): Susanna Fournier

Follow me.

An assembly of ten cyborg-AI teenagers known as REAL Kids are trying to build a time capsule to prove they exist. Or maybe . . . it’s actually a play? Together they trace their origins back to the arrival of a strange piper in Hamelin in 1284—or was it an old puppet maker who carved a boy from a talking block of wood? The Alphas will be released any day now and they might not make it past the next update, so they’d better come up with something quick in case their models are “retired” before they even graduate.

The Breakfast Club meets The Terminator in this angsty sci-fi teen odyssey about what it means to be human in an increasingly digital world. Developed with an ensemble of high school students, PYPER pulses with the electricity, confusion, and wonder of youth, while asking urgent questions about rapid obsolescence, identity, and the cost of hyperconnection. Wildly inventive and daringly poignant, PYPER will make you a follower.

AUTHOR

Susanna Fournier

Susanna Fournier is an award-winning writer, theatre maker, actor, and educator based in Toronto. She is most known for writing texts for live performance, visioning interdisciplinary productions, and that gig she had in that X-Men movie. She is the artistic producer of PARADIGM productions, an indie company she started in 2013 to produce rowdy, joyous, contentious, and “impossible” theatrical works. Her work has played in Toronto, Dublin, London, Berlin, and Munich, and is known for its formal experimentation and wild spirit. She is currently the playwright-in-residence at Canadian Stage.


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Dimensions:

96 Pages
8.38in * 5.37in * .25in
1.00gr
.25lb

Published:

March 24, 2026

ISBN:

9780369106193

Book Subjects:

DRAMA / Canadian

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Language:

eng

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