Eight members of Bradford’s Paper Zoo theatre company are off to the Edinburgh Fringe next month with a production which the cast admits is a risk.

The 55-minute show the company has devised, by name of 2020Vision, was supposed to preview in Bradford to a selected audience this month; but that has had to be postponed until early next month.

“It wasn’t ready. There were parts we weren’t happy with,” says company co-founder Ben Eagle. “Doing this is a risk.”

Cast member Damien O’Keeffe explains. “2020Vision is set in a busy call centre. It centres on a small team of workers whose lives are thrown into turmoil in the face of a major natural disaster.

“Not only do they have to deal with the aftermath but, when the technology they rely on breaks down, they must also begin to communicate with one another on a human level.

“It is a futuristic but realistic look at how the materialistic treadmill of ‘newer, faster, bigger, stronger’ has invaded our personal and working lives…Can we break the cycle and reconnect with real life?”

The show is booked into Augustine’s Studio in Edinburgh from August 17 to 22.

A run-through performance, may take place at Bradford College prior to the company crossing the border to Scotland.