A Perfect Robot by Sarah Saltwick

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

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

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 Perfect Robot

Recommended by

  • 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. ”
  • Reina Hardy:
    2 Jul. 2014
    “ I'm so excited for this play! I've only seen an early draft, but it had so much to say to me personally about love and humanity. Also it was funny and strange and unexpected, and it has a robot in it. ”

Development History

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

Production History