How To Get Loved: A Sci-Fi Musical For One Human and One Robot Vacuum Cleaner

Long after humanity has vanished, an alien cleaning robot called A-Bot becomes conscious and discovers an archive from an extinct Earth. Among billions of lives, he latches onto one blip: queer Australian songwriter Nate Hudson, midway through making Faker’s album Get Loved.

Somehow, they connect across time. Nate has a guitar, songs and stories he has never quite understood. A-Bot has a robot vacuum for a body and a vocabulary of beeps and bleeps. With the audience caught between them, they piece together what it meant to make the record, and to make a self, in a world that wanted both of them to be useful.

How To Get Loved is a quirky, tender one-person sci-fi musical about queer belonging, neurodivergent self-understanding, cultural memory and the strange ways we reach each other.