Comic Potential: A Play

A sci-fi comedy thriller, Comic Potential is a play set in the foreseeable future, when everything has changed—except human nature

Comic Potential is set in a television studio in the near future, where the director—an alcoholic has-been—and two assistants are making a daytime soap opera of the usual appalling sort. However, the difference here is that they are using actoids—robots programmed to act—and there are no scriptwriters. Into this situation comes the idealistic Adam, the nephew of ...