A play by Kate Vozella
1M, 3F
Characters-
Lucia
Willa
Charlie
Georgia
Four people are selected to live alongside the first iteration of a humanoid companion, serving as the human components in a series of live-in experiments meant to teach a machine about love and intimacy. The premise is simple: observe, imitate, learn.
Lucia, a novelist, is researching a future in which humanoids bear children for women unwilling to do so themselves. Her partner, Willa, is a teacher recently fired after a violent incident with a student and is struggling to keep her life intact. They are joined by Georgia, a psychologist with little interest in moral performance, and Charlie, her on-again, off-again partner—an artist with a fragile constitution.
As the experiment progresses, the boundary between modeling intimacy and living it begins to erode. Grief, sex, greed, and ambition are no longer private; they become part of the process. What unfolds is not a story about artificial intelligence becoming human, but about people—carefully, incrementally—deciding what they are willing to surrender in order to remain inside systems that promise structure, relevance, or relief.
To read this play reach out to Emily Dunetz, CAA