Byrne’s second project for If I Can’t Dance’s first edition is developed in two stages as a live reading at the Theaterfestival Boulevard, in preparation of the production of a film with the title 1984 and Beyond. The piece is an enactment of a text from Playboy Magazine in which twelve science fiction writers were invited to talk about their vision of the future.

In ‘s-Hertogenbosch, Byrne develops a live reading in which the fully costumed actors enact the script. In the background Byrne projects a series of black and white slides, recently shot in the United States, which can been seen as archetypical American scenes and which connote a time from the late fifties or early sixties, similar to when this conversation actually took place.