Skip to main content Skip to navigation

Print subscriptions

Danny Boyle’s Free Your Mind remixes The Matrix – in pictures

This article is more than 3 years old

An immersive production inspired by the 1999 sci-fi film is the opening show at Manchester’s Aviva Studios – take a first look at rehearsals

Rehearsals of Free Your Mind

All photographs by Tristram Kenton

Wed 4 Oct 2023 05.50 EDT

Last modified on Thu 5 Oct 2023 08.28 EDT

Rehearsals — Presented by Factory International, Free Your Mind is inspired by the Matrix films and blends dance, music and special effects
Share

Director Danny Boyle, behind and Choreographer Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy working with the performers — Director Danny Boyle, in green, has collaborated with choreographer Kenrick “H2O” Sandy, centre, on the production
Share

Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy, behind, second left, watches rehearsals — Free Your Mind has a score by Michael “Mikey J” Asante (co-founder and co-artistic director, with Sandy, of the company Boy Blue)
Share

Rehearsals — It features sculptures by the designer Es Devlin
Share

Rehearsals — The writer Sabrina Mahfouz has also collaborated on Free Your Mind
Share

Rehearsals — Factory International, the team behind the Manchester international festival, programme and operate Aviva Studios
Share

Rehearsals — Fifty dancers from around the UK are featured in the show
Share

Rehearsals — The show brings to life some of The Matrix’s iconic scenes for the first time on stage
Share

Rehearsals — The creative team includes costume designer Gareth Pugh, lighting designer Lucy Carter, sound designer Gareth Fry and video designer Luke Halls
Share

Rehearsals — Rehearsals for the sci-fi spectacular are making use of the building’s flexible spaces
Share

Rehearsals — Free Your Mind will explore the digital revolution and ask: “What is human after all? Who’s really in control?”
Share

Director Danny Boyle — Free Your Mind is at Aviva Studios, Manchester, 18 October to 5 November
Share

Explore more on these topics

Most viewed

Most viewed