Palomar Performing Arts presents Heddatron
May 4, 2024: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
May 5, 2024: 2:30 PM - 4:30 PM
May 9, 2024: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
May 10, 2024: 7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Heddatron By Elizabeth Meriwether
Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler in the age of Artificial Intelligence
A wildly creative, absurd and surprising reinvention of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Jane Gordon, a pregnant housewife, is abducted by robots, taken to the rainforest, and forced to perform Hedda Gabler by her robot captors. Meanwhile Nugget, her ten-year-old daughter, with the aid of her milquetoast father, an eager documentary filmmaker and her small arms dealing uncle must rescue Jane – whether she wants to be saved or not. As we approach the AI singularity, Heddatron constructs a bizarre and strangely familiar world of reality TV and rocket launchers where everyone, artificial or otherwise, just wants to feel a little bit human.
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