The Matrix Manchester’s Aviva Studios launches with a Danny Boyle dance version.

The UK’s largest new cultural facility will premiere with a live production of Danny Boyle’s reimagining of the 1999 movie The Matrix. Billed as “The Matrix… Now” on posters, the show updates the concept of the hold algorithms and large tech companies have over humanity.

It gets its title from something Morpheus tells Anderson/Neo in the original film, Free Your Mind. With choreographer Kenrick “H2O” Sandy, composer Michael “Mikey J” Asante, set designer Es Devlin, and writer Sabrina Mahfouz, the story is also portrayed through dance.

High concepts were expertly woven into a very likeable science fiction narrative with amazing action sequences and cutting-edge special effects in The Matrix. “The Matrix… Now” is how the show is advertised on the posters, and dance tells the entire story.

Though some aspects of the movie haven’t held up as well, The Matrix is still a really wonderful movie. According to culture and technology journalist Peter Ray Allison, the plot remains outstanding even without the elaborate effects, outstanding action, and well-executed choreography and direction. There are still unanswered questions. For example, some scientists and philosophers think we might be unknowingly living in a virtual world created by computers.

The phrase from the movie has become more widely used by self-described free speech advocates and contentious figures like Andrew Tate, who refer to “the matrix” as a mysterious alliance of the media, companies, politicians, and law enforcement that is allegedly trying to quiet them. Online communities seized upon Anderson and Neo’s decision to take the “red pill” or stay ignorant of reality, meaning that taking the “red pill” now entails men realising the “reality” that feminism imposes upon them.