Comic Potential
WITH SIGN LANGUAGE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15 AT 2PM **
At the Phoenix Theatre @ UVic
FEBRUARY 13 – 22, 2020
By Alan Ayckbourn
Director Conrad Alexandrowicz
Considered one of the funniest and most inventive plays by Britain’s grandmaster of comedy, this romantic sci-fi satire is set in the foreseeable future, when actors are replaced with convincingly lifelike robots known as “actoids.” Adam, an aspiring young writer, visits a TV studio to meet his idol, Chandler, the director of a never-ending hospital soap opera who was once a great movie director. On the set, Adam discovers the charming android Jacie Tripplethree (serial number JCF 31333) and realizes that the programming glitch that makes her laugh hysterically also makes her more human. Adam and Chandler start developing a new TV show for Jacie to star in, but the studio executives aren’t convinced. Will Adam lose his heart to a robot? Will his show get the green light? Will love prevail? Tune in to find out! In the age of today’s virtual online assistants, this wickedly funny satire from 1998 reads like a cautionary tale of the rise of artificial intelligence.
Please join us for this hilarious futuristic play, offered with Sign language interpretation for the matinee on:
Saturday, February 15 at 2pm
Featuring Deaf interpreter Nigel Howard and Hearing interpreters Jen Ferris and Keith Brougham
** Discounted advanced tickets ($21) **
For members of the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community prior to February 4, 2020 using the advanced ticket form.
More play information and artists bios
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- Advanced discounted ticket orderform for February 15 matinee
- Regular Ticket information after : https://finearts.uvic.ca/theatre/mainstage/tickets/
