Comic Potential: A Play - Softcover

Ayckbourn, Alan

 
9780571197873: Comic Potential: A Play
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0571197876 ISBN 13: 9780571197873
Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

A sci-fi comedy thriller, Comic Potential is a play set in the foreseeable future, when everything has changed--except human nature

Comic Potential is set in a television studio in the near future, where the director--an alcoholic has-been--and two assistants are making a daytime soap opera of the usual appalling sort. However, the difference here is that they are using actoids--robots programmed to act--and there are no scriptwriters. Into this situation comes the idealistic Adam, the nephew of the millionaire station owner, who wants to write comedy of the quality that Chaplin and Keaton once embodied. But when Adam falls in love with Jaycee Triplethree (JC333), one of the actoids on the show, everything is turned upside down as she grows more human and the line between actoid and human diminishes. When in anguish Jaycee finally cries that she can't say anything she hasn't been programmed to say, Adam points out that no one ever says anything original anyway.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Alan Ayckbourn is one of England's most prolific and widely performed living playwrights with over sixty plays in his catalogue. In 1997, he received a knighthood for his services to the theater. His plays include Absurd Person Singular, The Norman Conquests trilogy, and House & Garden. He lives in England.

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Verlag
Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0571197876
ISBN 13 
9780571197873
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
130
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