<i>Lifestyle of the Richard and Family </i><br>
Oct 18, 2019 at 7:00pm, The Liberty Theatre<br>
Oct 19, 2019 at 2:00pm, Community Library, Ketchum<br>
Free! (Suggested donation $10)<br>
Written by Roslyn Helper in collaboration with SwiftKey Note<br>
Directed by Jana Arnold
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David values a full-time job and a gym membership, and is having an affair with Clare. Maree prefers to do her shopping online and has a drinking problem. Jimmy has just returned from “the other side.” And Sam is a teen goth who likes welding. The story starts in a living room and ends in the deepest reaches of the black hole that is the internet.
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This poetically absurd modern drama takes our most familiar truths and our most popular aspirations to a level of strangeness beyond comprehension – but is it a point of no return? Playwright Roslyn Helper partnered with a predictive text AI program to create a theatrical “algorithm” that asks us to consider the increasing role that AI plays, and will play, in our cultural lives. The performance will be followed by a discussion on the future of AI and cultural expression.
