SOPHIA DELTA (a play in three acts, 62 pages) by Catherine Haigney
Time and Setting: The near future at a corporation planning a city for survivalists.
Cast: Four women, four men. (One hour playing time)
Act One begins with Ali, head aesthetician at Citibot, trying to orient her strange new colleague for their project remodeling “Sophia Gamma,” an android prototype. Citibot’s CEO introduces a consultant to coach Sophia Gamma and make...
Time and Setting: The near future at a corporation planning a city for survivalists.
Cast: Four women, four men. (One hour playing time)
Act One begins with Ali, head aesthetician at Citibot, trying to orient her strange new colleague for their project remodeling “Sophia Gamma,” an android prototype. Citibot’s CEO introduces a consultant to coach Sophia Gamma and make her more ideally “human,” but a free-spirited custodian inadvertently gives Sophia curious ideas, making trouble ahead. The “brainstorming” sessions of Act Two reveal an "Ultimate Android” plan for the “Ultimate City," Citibot’s survivalist project now entirely owned and directed by a young prodigy named Davos. After Ali is persuaded to allow an upload of her brain data to Sophia, Act Three involves the unsettling effects of Sophia’s evolving “conversation.” Davos, ignoring protest, interviews this transitional Sophia for a role in realizing the dream of “Eutopia.” When model “Delta” appears in the Epilogue’s vision of our future, Davos confronts her with a revelation.