Traditional wisdom says that the theater is slow to respond to current events, but the theater is like Iyad Akhtar (“McNeel”She recently embraced to tell stories about artificial intelligence, and sometimes use it to help writing.
Matthew JasdaNew play “Torment“In addition to that package. Inspired 2023 The overthrow of Bassam Al -TamanOpenai CEO, written with the help of ChatGPT and Claud. Two Chatbots participate in dramatic credit in the program.
Unfortunately, the noise around this technology is not associated here with the narration of the narration. Although there is a previous imaginary in its position, and many characters roaming in the danger and promise of artificial intelligence, “Domers” possesses strange quality of the self, as if it was recognized that its fans are investing from Get -go.
This is a tale that relies on the crises that were placed in one night in San Francisco, after a technical company, Mindmesh, its leader, Seth (Sam Herkin) refused. Hide at home, as he conspires to restore his job, while the company with a panic is trying to know how to move forward without it.
Seth tells that the social meeting that lacks the desired magic, “I will not give up; I will not admit a mistake. I have been expelled to create miracles.”
This is not the way the council will put, but we do not meet them until the second chapter. The first verb, to a large extent the most powerful half of this winding play, is everything about Seth’s dilemma.
In Gasda, who also directs this production, he throws it double, with 10 actors appearing in each performance. The actors I saw in ArtXNYC in Manhattan were well polished. (Most of the next New York offers in Brooklyn Center for theater research In Greenpoint.)
But the characters explode in uncomfortable monologues, as when Zsuzsa magyar tells the company’s chief safety official, her colleagues about disturbing repeated dreams, one of them clearly sexually.
The most anxious is that their moral arguments about artificial intelligence feel that you have been reformulated if you follow the issue at all, and it is not credible because the things these people will say to each other under these circumstances. There is a meaning, too, that the play, which will interfere in New York, will interfere with a separate production in San Francisco in March, trying to oppose and retreat culture.
The first action line, in which SETH used the intellectually disabled to describe some members of the Board of Directors, got a bad laugh at the performance I saw. Yes, this word has a fair game to use for the theatrical writer, but does another person really need to pronounce it in the second chapter? Likewise, a multi -stones joke may have been sufficient.
There are signals throughout the Elon, the family name has not been presented, but it does not have to be there. (Seth, annoyed by Alina, Snipus: “You must only have an Elon child when he wanted.”
“Doomers” is “Glengarry Glen Ross” for the era of artificial intelligence “, but I think that the” Caliphate “drama bears some responsibility for the perception of the wrong play that the council put on the corporate strategy and corporate crime for the theater.
The second verb is everything about the Mindmesh plate, but lines like “We are here to oversee risks and reduce the risks and potential risks” fatal without personalities and situations that concern us in the risks. For the game that takes place at such a risky moment, it has a striking lack of stress.
Maybe it is due to Dramaturgs, ChatGPT and Claude?
When I asked advertising about this program, he told me that he was “a tongue joke in the cheek”-that “attributed” played with Claude and Chatgpt asking questions of artificial intelligence, so he understood the technology that he was writing about.
Human mistake, then. Oh good.
Torment
Until April 19 at the Brokelin Theater Research Center, Brooklyn, ARTXNYC, Manhattan; Domers.fyi. Running time: 2 hours.
