Look Busy - Theatre

Rebecca Tully

Suitable for 14+

When the robots have taken our jobs… what on earth will we do with our time?!
Judie Boom fires a joyful confetti-cannon of ideas at AI, automation, and the future of work. A funny, hopeful solo show blending stand-up, storytelling, and surreal props. Sarah Millican meets Black Mirror.

Look Busy is a humorous, participative solo performance exploring how automation and AI are reshaping work, value, and livelihood — particularly in rural and working-class communities.

Funny, absurd, and heartfelt, Look Busy imagines fairer futures through laughter, connection, and play — Sarah Millican meets Black Mirror, with hope and spacehoppers.

Using a home-made time-travel -simulator, Judie takes the audience on a playful journey to a world beyond work — before returning to the present with fresh insight into where power and money sit now, and how a fairer future might be imagined together, taking audiences from curiosity and laughter to shared reflection and hopeful possibility.

The show has played at Dundee and Lambeth Fringes, earning majority 5⭐ audience reviews and praise as “a pleasant hour of speculative comedy.” Audiences described it as “very funny and thought-provoking,” “jolly entertainment,” and “I learnt a lot and laughed.” It speaks to everyone from farming families to freelancers, retirees to those just starting out.