Forbhreathnú

• Drámadóir

  Eugene O'Brien  Gavin Quinn 

• Achoimre

  In the early 1960s, MIT developed artificial intelligence software called ELIZA, its title a direct reference to Shaw’s Pygmalion. ELIZA made certain kinds of natural language conversations between humans and computers possible. But of course, intelligent response is a trick. It all has to be scripted. So how can a robot write poetry? This Eliza is sent into an anonymous motel, where she interacts with four characters who are all mysteriously booked into the same room. Some of them seem to be barely alive, others too much so, and others may not be real. The audience is an observer to a test: Eliza is both learning from and assessing these individuals. In a series of scripted scenes, they explore love, death, metaphysics, evil and evolution, probing the points in our society where boundaries may be on the verge of disintegrating: between technology and organic life, or between consciousness, non-consciousness and unconsciousness.

• Cinéal Dráma

  Drámaí Ginearálta
  

  Líon na Míreanna

  Dráma Fada

Cast size

• Male

  2

• Female

  3

• Total

  5

Céad Léiriú

• Dáta an Chéad Léirithe

  04 October 2018

• Nótaí faoin Léiriú

  Produced as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival. 

• Leiriú

  Produced by Pan Pan

• Ionad an Chéad Léirithe

  Samuel Beckett Theatre
  

Foinse Eolais

The information for this entry was taken from the original production programme, with additional information taken from the Dublin Theatre Festival programme.