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Comic Potential (A Play)

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  • Product Details

    Author:
    Alan Ayckbourn
    Format:
    Paperback
    Pages:
    96
    Publisher:
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux (May 29, 2000)
    Language:
    English
    ISBN-13:
    9780571197873
    ISBN-10:
    0571197876
    Weight:
    6.08oz
    Dimensions:
    5.5" x 8.5" x 0.3"
    Case Pack:
    62
    File:
    Macmillan Trade-Macmillan_Print_US_Trade_20260316161400-20260317.xml
    List Price:
    $16.00
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    $12.32
    Publisher Identifier:
    P-STM
    Discount Code:
    A
    Audience:
    General/trade
    QuickShip:
    Yes
    Folder:
    Macmillan Trade
    Pub Discount:
    65
    Imprint:
    Farrar, Straus and Giroux
  • Overview

    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 the millionaire station owner, who wants to write comedy of the quality that Chaplin and Keaton once embodied. But when Adam falls in love with Jaycee Triplethree (JC333), one of the actoids on the show, everything is turned upside down as she grows more human and the line between actoid and human diminishes. When in anguish Jaycee finally cries that she can't say anything she hasn't been programmed to say, Adam points out that no one ever says anything original anyway.