I saw a stunning, deeply moving production of this harrowing yet hopeful sci-fi play at Theaterlab. I found the naturalistic, often very funny script a brilliant mechanism for examining the components of human relationships. Is all communication manipulation, and if not, what does it mean to be genuine? I loved how visceral the piece felt, especially the on-stage painting, which gave the story a powerful sense of vitality throughout. A thought-provoking, haunting piece of genre theatre!

I am haunted (in a really good way) by this play- I come back to the ideas and philosophies that Haller puts forward. The final image is one I will never forget.

A moving and surprising meditation on the meaning of and necessity for art. Soulless robots discover they need creativity to advance, but the human artist assigned to teach a robot to create art realizes they can't teach creativity to a machine. Art can't exist without emotion and robots can't feel emotion. The ambiguous ending is quite haunting.