Comic Potential

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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

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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