A Perfect Robot by Sarah Saltwick

A marvel of art and technology, Mollybot is an almost perfect and affordable soulmate. When her creator goes off in search of the last missing piece to her soul, her machinery is left vulnerable to the commercial and jealous side of creation. Her body and programming are threatened.  With only Alan Turing at her side, can Mollybot scale the distance between robot and human, subject and self?  

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A marvel of art and technology, Mollybot is an almost perfect and affordable soulmate. When her creator goes off in search of the last missing piece to her soul, her machinery is left vulnerable to the commercial and jealous side of creation. Her body and programming are threatened.  With only Alan Turing at her side, can Mollybot scale the distance between robot and human, subject and self?  

Finalist of for the O’Neill Playwrights Conference 2014
Honorable Mention for Kilroy List 14 & Kilroy 15
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A Perfect Robot

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  • Elizabeth A. M. Keel:
    30 Apr. 2024
    “ What an exquisite, shimmering ache of a play. This swift and compelling sci-fi merges ghosts, the ocean, and the very limits of language to create something vivid and eternal. ”
  • Cheryl Bear:
    23 Jan. 2021
    “ A riveting tale of robotic creation and self realization that had me hooked! Love! ”
  • Eugene O'Neill Theater Center:
    12 May. 2017
    “ It is the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's pleasure to recommend Sarah Saltwick and their play A Perfect Robot as a finalist for our 2014 National Playwrights Conference. The play rose through a competitive, anonymous, multileveled selection process that took nearly nine months to execute. As one finalist out of hundreds of submissions, the strength of this play’s writing has allowed this work to prosper in such a competitive selection process. ”
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Development History

  • Reading
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    New Century Theatre Company
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    2016
  • Reading
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    New Works Festival, Kitchen Dog, Dallas TX
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    2014
  • Workshop
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    Icicle Creek Theater Festival
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    2013
  • Workshop
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    UTNT, University of Texas at Austin
    ,
    2013
  • Reading
    ,
    paper chairs theater company
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    2012

Production History