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Comic Potential
May 23-June 8, 2003
Directed By: Robin McKercher
Play Type(s): Comedy
Event Type: Mainstage
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by Alan Ayckbourn
Both a hilarious satire of television and a touching romantic comedy, COMIC POTENTIAL begins in a TV studio where a hospital soap opera is being taped. The actors, it turns out, are all actoids – robots programmed to play the parts of the show’s characters.
Into the studio comes Adam, nephew of the show’s producer and himself an aspiring writer who has long admired the work of the director Chance Tate (once a movie great and now a has-been). Adam strikes up a conversation with the actoid Jacie Triplethree (serial number JCF31333) and finds, to his surprise that not only can she carry on an unprogrammed conversation, she also is capable of creative imagination. Adam envisions a new television series with Jacie as the star, but the studio rejects his idea and decides to melt down Jacie.
Adam and Jacie run away, but cannot elude capture. In the course of events, Adam finds himself falling in love with the lovely Jacie. Will Adam get the green light on his series? Will Jacie avoid meltdown? Is there hope for this cross-circuiting couple? The answers when COMIC POTENTIAL takes the LCP stage in May!
SHOW DATES AND TIMES
Friday, May 23, 2003 -- 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 24 -- 7:30 PM
Sunday, May 25 -- 2:00 PM
Thursday, May 29 -- 7:30 PM
Friday, May 30 -- 7:30 PM
Saturday, May 31 -- 7:30 PM
Sunday, June 1 -- 2:00 PM
Thursday, June 5 -- 7:30 PM
Friday, June 6 -- 7:30 PM
Saturday, June 7 -- 7:30 PM
Sunday, June 8 -- 2:00 PM
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