ARTS / THEATER
By Global Times Published: Jun 27, 2021 06:13 PM
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Spectacle Photo: Courtesy of OCT YunnanIt is a normal day at the club in the future year of 2099. Everyone is waiting with high anticipation to see who will be chosen to spend the night with the AI queen.
It may seem like a scene from a sci-fi cyberpunk movie like Blade Runner 2049, but in actuality is a theater work being held at a warehouse-turned-stage in Dali, Southwest China s Yunnan Province.
The experimental drama,
Spectacle, which took chief director Yang Le and his team four years to complete, tells a story about how an AI scientist, Turing, tries to help an AI learn about human knowledge, wisdom and, most importantly, emotions and love by interacting with human beings such as actors and the show s audience.
Experimental theater explores robot-human relationship
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