The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin

The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin is an experimental piece by TG WORKS that explores identity, guilt and the numbing churn of digital life. Its Alec Baldwin is not the actor but an ordinary man whose inner world is fracturing, pushed further off balance by his growing reliance on an AI bot whose blunt responses unsettle as much as they soothe.

Led by Tommaso Giacomin, migrant-led company TG WORKS favours physical, fractured and multimedia-led theatre to interrogate contemporary unease, an approach that defines this production.

The performance is deliberately odd. For a good portion of the evening it feels loose, unpredictable and occasionally reminiscent of student theatre, though several performers stand out with strong physical and vocal work that give the more abstract sequences some grounding.

There is inventive use of multimedia throughout. Live-streamed close-ups projected onto a large screen add texture to scenes that might otherwise drift, reinforcing the sense of watching oneself unravel. One of the more memorable moments sees all the actors speaking into microphones at once, each in different languages or on entirely different subjects, while the lead performer raises and lowers their volume. I cannot claim to have fully understood what was happening, but it was intriguing and effectively captured the sense of mental interference the piece aims to convey.

The work takes time to settle, and its randomness may test patience, yet the final stretch draws the themes together with more clarity than expected. By the end, the production becomes compelling, offering a thoughtful reflection on guilt, violence and desensitisation.

Not polished, but ambitious and increasingly absorbing.