Comic Potential
By Alan Ayckbourn
July 10 - August 1Comic
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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