The languages used in the show are Czech and English (alternate language versions are English and French or English and German)
Recommended age: 6+
Theme, direction
Ondřej Holba (CZ)
Performer
Florent Golfier (FR/CZ)
Artistic cooperation
Heli Väätäinen (FIN)
Light design
Martin Hamouz (CZ)
Music
J. S. Bach, Ferenc Liszt, Roman Zabelov
Co-producer
CIRQUEON – Centre for Contemporary Circus, Palác Akropolis
Touring
Šárka Maršíková
Photo
Benn Murhaaya, Vojtěch Brtnický
Supported by
Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Capital City of Prague, Circollaborative Tools, CircusNext+ - Erasmus+ program
Partners
OctopusLAB
International residence
CircoCircolo / La Central del Circ / Latitude50
Duration
45 min.
Premiere
24. 10. 2019, Palác Akropolis
And Who Is Useless Now? is an original theater performance about a man, four robots, one slightly elitist artificial intelligence, and the transfer of responsibility to technologies.
While Wendy the A.I. is trying to use art to win humans' acceptance as a thinking being, Florent who shares the stage with her is beginning to doubt his human mind. How much freedom and human qualities are we willing to sacrifice for comfort?
The show is inspired by the ideas of Alan Turing, the founder of modern computer science, and Marvin Minsky, a pioneer of machine thinking. They both believed the human mind was just a very complicated machine.
