Alan Ayckbourn’s brilliant comedy about AI and androids taking the place of humans in a community television soap opera. Highly regarded film director, Chandler Tate, has fallen on hard times and is now directing soap operas and what’s worse, the actors are actually non-human ‘actoids’. While filming, an actoid, JC -F133, mispronounces words. What is interesting is that another actoid laughed and it was not meant to because it was not programmed to do so.
An aspiring young writer is fascinated by this actoid and sets about creating a new soap opera based around her. There are those in the company that want her melted down and others who see potential within her.
AI and humans losing their jobs to machines is on the news everyday. “Comic Potential” is very funny, very entertaining and thought-provoking. A guaranteed great night out.