Sync

by Shanna Allman

***Selection - 2026 New Works Northwest Festival***
***Winner - 2024 Ashland New Plays Festival***
***Honorable Mention - 2024 Neukom Institute Literacy Award***

FULL LENGTH, 3W, 1W/DNB, 1M - Feeling unlovable? Emotionally adrift? Perhaps an Automated Relational Companion from The Institute for Enhanced Connections can help...

What happens when technology comes home? And crawls into bed? And kisses us...

***Selection - 2026 New Works Northwest Festival***
***Winner - 2024 Ashland New Plays Festival***
***Honorable Mention - 2024 Neukom Institute Literacy Award***

FULL LENGTH, 3W, 1W/DNB, 1M - Feeling unlovable? Emotionally adrift? Perhaps an Automated Relational Companion from The Institute for Enhanced Connections can help...

What happens when technology comes home? And crawls into bed? And kisses us goodnight?
Are we risking the reprogramming of our most fundamental nature?

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  • Daniel Repp: Sync by Shanna Allman
    “

    Through lively dialogue bursting with personality, Allman has audiences buzzing about what makes a good friend, a good technology, and a good partner. Though we soon discover questions about what constitutes "real" love are more complicated than we assume, the characters in "Sync" are delightfully real.

    Through lively dialogue bursting with personality, Allman has audiences buzzing about what makes a good friend, a good technology, and a good partner. Though we soon discover questions about what constitutes "real" love are more complicated than we assume, the characters in "Sync" are delightfully real.

    ”
  • Steve Lyons: Sync by Shanna Allman
    “

    A page turner. Very funny, compelling and thought provoking play about what makes a human being better than a robot. Thoughtful twists and turns as the power struggle between Allison and Sadie, her lesbian best friend, grapple with Allison's new robot boyfriend. If it looks like a human and acts like a human, is it really a human!?!? Fun play.

    A page turner. Very funny, compelling and thought provoking play about what makes a human being better than a robot. Thoughtful twists and turns as the power struggle between Allison and Sadie, her lesbian best friend, grapple with Allison's new robot boyfriend. If it looks like a human and acts like a human, is it really a human!?!? Fun play.

    ”
3W, 1W/DNB, 1 M
DNB = demi-non-binary

Development History

  • Reading, Ashland New Play Festival, 2024
  • Workshop, Ashland New Play Fesitval, 2024
  • Reading, The Rowdy Table, 2023
  • Workshop, The Rowdy Table, 2023

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