Heddatron (By Elizabeth Meriwether): A Staged Reading
Canek Zapata. Untitled, 2023, from the series Miniatures: Crown of Circuits. Digital file. Courtesy of the artist.
Directed by Khristián Méndez Aguirre
This play explores the limits between humans and robots: the strange lines that divide them, and the desire for purpose that might unite them. It also draws parallels between the kinds of gender-based consciousness attained by Henrik Ibsen’s women characters in the late 1800s and our collective fears of a Singularity that may or may not happen.
The reading will be followed by a short discussion and viewing of the exhibition A Well-trained Eye.
Produced by special arrangement with Playscripts, Inc. (www.playscripts.com)
Presented by the Visual Arts Center in partnership with Good Systems, a research grand challenge at UT Austin, with support from the Department of Theatre and Dance and Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities.