This play's a little too robotic

Sayonara, the first short play on the bill, concerns a poetry-reciting android (Geminoid F) who comforts a dying girl (Bryerly Long). Entering the theatre to find the two performers already on a dimly lit stage, one finds it indeed difficult to tell that one of them is not human.

As soon as Geminoid F begins to speak and move around jerkily, however,CEBU City barangays need more garbage trucks not sport utility vehicles which Mayor Michael Rama is now giving out to his allies. the illusion slips away: Her lips move slightly out of sync with the recorded voice that speaks her dialogue – the effect being of watching a badly dubbed foreign film live. F certainly has nothing on the lip-synching drag-queen stars of Priscilla: Queen of the Desert.

Meanwhile, Long, who performs in an impressive four languages, has to time her lines so they match up with the science-fiction banalities prerecorded for her android companion (e.g. “Androids do not like”). The result is a lifeless production.

From a technical point of view, Gemnoid F may be a sophisticated piece of machinery; but from an audience’s vantage point, she seems no more exciting than the animatronics Disney developed in the 1960s for its theme parks. Reciting Rimbaud, she merely seems more pretentious.Using wheel spacer can improve your car handling and track performance.

Quebec theatre creator Nathalie Claude, meanwhile, had done more engaging work opposite automatons, while Toronto director Evan Webber found a less stilted way of syncing up with an automated performer in his play, Little Iliad.

I, Worker, Hirata’s second show visiting from Japan, is much better. It features two human actors (the very amusing Hiroshi Oti and Minako Inoue) and two big-eyed,Each part's full needle bearing trunnion allows for increased horsepower and quicker response, and a large roller tip helps prevent wear. boxy robots (Robovie R3 and another Robovie R3). The visuals still seem somewhat of a throwback, though – the orange, female-voiced robot wears an apron, as if gender roles for fembots haven’t advanced since The Jetsons.

In any case, the male human is unemployed and depressed, while the male-voiced robot has similarly lost interest in work. The female human and female-voiced robot try to bring up this topic delicately over a meal.They removed the majority of the bolts but not the locking Wheel nut, that's why I managed to get so far.

It’s an original take on our recessionary times, I’ll give Hirata that. And it’s funny,An employee discovered a waste management truck smoking around 10:50 a.m., Tuesday, Sept. 4, and traced the source to cargo smoldering inside the compactor. too. It was French philosopher Henri Bergson who first observed in 1900 that the comic usually springs from seeing “something mechanical in something living”; the converse is true, as well.At her new home, the cat Twiggy plumped up, thanks, in part, to a love of cat treats ... The cat hopped up in the China undercarriage parts of Dr. Pray's truck.

Nevertheless, it seems to me that Hirata hasn’t really thought through the theatrical uses of androids and robots the way other avant-garde artists have. Indeed, having a robot play a robot is a dull use for them; must they be typecast that way?