Comic Potential
About the play:
It is the near future. Artificial intelligence has entered all areas of human experience. In a London TV studio a soap opera is being produced, with actors who are not human anymore: so-called actoids – robots who are programmed to act and develop their own plot lines – enact tear-jerking melodramas without being able to experience emotions themselves. One day, a female actoid resists her pre-programmed script and begins to laugh uncontrollably. The only person who does not see this as a technical fault is Adam, a young writer who perceives something fundamentally human in the actoid whom he calls Jacie. Determined to write a TV comedy with Jacie as the leading actress, Adam is quickly regarded as a freak by the studio bosses and takes Jacie on an odyssey through London which stretches the limits of Jacie’s ‘humanity’.
Alan Ayckbourn’s 1999 play is almost prophetic in how it portrays contemporary discussions about artificial intelligence and post-humanism. And it also has a lot of comic potential! ;)
Performance Dates:
June 25th / 26th
July 01st/ 02nd / 08th/ 09th
Alan Ayckbourn’s 1999 play is almost prophetic in how it portrays contemporary discussions about artificial intelligence and post-humanism. And it also has a lot of comic potential! ;)
Performance Dates:
June 25th / 26th
July 01st/ 02nd / 08th/ 09th
Cast & Crew
Adam Trainsmith: Marc Rieger
Chandler Tate: Victor Weidle (June), Josef Vollmer (July) Jacie Triplethree: Neele Rother Carla Pepperbloom: Sophia Böttcher Esther Trainsmith: Verena Krack Hotel Desk Clerk, Waiter 1: Kimberly Günther Marmion, Waiter 2: Valentin Stein Prim Spring: Raphaela Nickel Trudi Floote, Girl in dress shop: Nina Schröder The Doctor, The Farmer, Man in dress shop, Turkey: Franz Nozicka The Mother, The Farmer's Wife, Dress Shop Assistant: Michelle Auth The Son, Technician: Jan Germar A Prostitute: Anna Fechner |
Directors: Lars Heiler & Nieki Rei
Lighting and Sound: Brian Koch, Jan Germar Stage Design: RBC & Anne Herbold Make-Up: Nina Schröder, Eva Herrmann, Henni Brandenburg, Anna Fechner Poster & flyer design: Marvin Herbring Website & PR: Victor Weidle |