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| "I, Worker" Seinendan Theater Company |
Ever since the fictional Doctor Frankenstein created his
monster, people have been worrying about what may happen to them at the hands
of their own human-like creations. Usually
those worries have been about robots seizing power with their superior strength
and intelligence. But now, in the work
of Japanese playwright +Oriza Hirata, we see humans simply ceding power to
artificial beings that are not just stronger and more intelligent, but more
emotionally sensitive and stable than their human masters. That’s
the theme of two unsettling short plays, written and directed by Oriza,
performed by a cast of humans, robots and an android at Japan Society February
7-9.
