RoboTeacher

SHORT: A teacher sits alone in a classroom. A student enters the room and puts his phone to the side of the teacher’s temple. Suddenly, the teacher comes alive. The lesson begins. The teacher gives the lesson based on a deep database of school subjects. But as the teacher and student converse, something goes amiss. Communication lines are broken down. Connections are missed. And, as the lesson nears its...

SHORT: A teacher sits alone in a classroom. A student enters the room and puts his phone to the side of the teacher’s temple. Suddenly, the teacher comes alive. The lesson begins. The teacher gives the lesson based on a deep database of school subjects. But as the teacher and student converse, something goes amiss. Communication lines are broken down. Connections are missed. And, as the lesson nears its end, and the student begins to power down the teacher, the question of ‘what education truly is’ remains, floating unanswered in the air.

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RoboTeacher

1 woman
1 man

Development History

  • Type Reading, Organization Centastage, Write On! Boston, Year 2017
  • Type Reading, Organization Playwrights' Platform, Year 2017

Production History

  • Type Community Theater, Organization Playwrights' Platform, 46th Annual Festival of New Plays, Year 2018