An avant-garde New York City theatre group, Les Freres Corbusier, is adapting Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler in a script called Heddatron where half the cast will be robots.
No, not the Keanu Reeves type of acting robots...but real solid state robots.
It might be difficult for machine actors to convey the full dimensions of the human condition. But Elizabeth Meriwether's strange script cuts to the heart of Ibsen's story: A woman chained up in her own life struggles to break free of social programming. That struggle is mirrored by the robots, who attempt to escape their own programming and achieve true AI - self-awareness. Just as Hedda rails against a world that can't hear her, the robots represent potential that one day may be unleashed.|Wired|
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