+++ Comic Potential +++

The Red Bricks proudly present to you their newest production: Comic Potential by Alan Ayckbourn!

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 has a lot of comic potential!


Performance Dates:

June 25th / 26th
July 01st/ 02nd / 08th/ 09th

Live at Kulturzentrum K19, 8.pm

Admission fees:
Regular - 8€
Students - 4€

Get your tickets here.