Can a robot write a play that reflects the world in its current state? Find out at the stage reading of a play created fully by a computer. Follow the story of the married couple Ivan and Nina, whose lives become deeply impacted by incoming war. Permeation is the second play generated by artificial intelligence—a mix of love tragedy, war drama, and espionage thriller.
Artists, scientists and university students in Prague joined their forces for the second time to explore creative collaboration between a man and artificial intelligence. The stage reading, presented at the 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival in world premiere, is outcome of two years of work on a unique project supported by The Technology Agency of the Czech Republic (TACR). At the start of this project there was a question whether AI can write a theater play. Using artificial intelligence during creative process and collaboration of a man and AI poses numerous unsettling questions beyond the field of art and invites for wider social debate.
Permeation, Czech Republic. Playwright: Artificial intelligence. Project author: Tomas Studenik. Director: Erwin Maas. Cast: Jade Radford, Christopher Domig, Joshua Echebiri.
Free and open to the public. Online registration through Eventbrite is required. Wearing of a face mask inside the venue is required.
The 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival is dedicated to the people of Ukraine fighting for their independence. 🇺🇦 Suggested donation ($10) will be used to support Ukrainian refugees. All collected funds will be donated to People in Need, a Czech non-governmental, non-profit organization with over 20 years of experience in helping people in emergencies all over the world.
For more information about this reading and the 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival program, visit www.rehearsalfortruth.org.
Project partners: THEaiTRE, TACR (The project TL03000348 THEaiTRE: Artificial Intelligence as the Author of the Play is co-financed with state support of the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic within the ETA Program 3); Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Computer Science School, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Czech Republic; CEE Hacks; Prg.ai; Theatre Faculty, the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague; the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic, and Czech Centers.
ABOUT THE 2022 REHEARSAL FOR TRUTH THEATER FESTIVAL
The 2022 Rehearsal for Truth Theater Festival: Under Pressure is organized by the Vaclav Havel Library Foundation and the Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Association in partnership with the Polish Cultural Institute New York, GOH Productions, Czech National Trust, Terezin Music Foundation, Trap Door Theatre, and Yara Arts Group.
The festival is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, Consulate General of the Czech Republic in New York, Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic, Ministry of Human Capacities, Hungary, and Society for the History of Czechoslovak Jews.