Welcome to a futuristic edition of the documentary in the studio from the BBC World Service.

I'm Mark Berman and I've been following the first ever staging of a science fiction classic,

Philip K Dick's The Minority Report.

Here's Director Max Webster.

To persuade people to come and see live theatre,

you've got to be doing something really brave, I think,

something that can only happen in a theatre

that people feel is an event to go and see.

Okay, so some might miss everybody, we're going to go to the same place again.

Thank you, Jodie.

The name of the next free murderer.

The name.

name.

American author Philip K. Dick wrote. American author Philip K. Dick wrote Minority Report 70 years ago, one of hundreds of his short stories

that mucked around with reality in all kinds of mind-bending ways. In this case, the far-flung future of pre-crime, where mutants with precognitive powers who can foresee an upcoming murder are used by an authoritarian state operating a preemptive justice system. You do the time but never get to commit the crime. The plot twists and turns around John Anderton. In this stage production he becomes a she, Julia Anderton.

Anderton is the founder and head of a pre-crime division, but has been fingered by the precogs as the next murderer to be.

Sound familiar? That's because Stephen Spielberg filmed it in 2002. Four years ago,

theatre produced a Simon friend brought the rights to a story and an author high

in brand recognition and invited writer and actor David Haig to create a new stage version

with no holds barred his imagination. Haig has set his story in the near future of London 2050.

I just thought it was an incredibly exciting concept and a real challenge,

especially as I've written conventional plays up to date,

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