‘An old school morality story beneath high-tech dressing’ – Disruption evaluation

Andrew Stein’s play concerning the penalties of AI on our each day lives would possibly properly have been referred to as Algorithm and Blues.

Three New York {couples} are tempted by their rich entrepreneur and greatest good friend Nick (Oliver Alvin-Wilson) into investing in his newest scheme which can take life-enhancing algorithms to the subsequent stage.

Working together with his accomplice, the younger and ubersmart Raven (Sasha Desouza-Willock), he has provide you with an concept so good that Google has given them $50m to develop it.

In an obvious gesture of altruism, Nick desires to make it possible of a lifetime to his associates, permitting every of them to develop into unimaginably rich.

One by one they fall for Nick’s persuasive gross sales pitch, there is just one holdout – psychiatrist Suzie (Debbie Korley) – who has doubts.

Sharply directed by New Yorker Hersh Ellis on Zoë Hurwitz’s cyber set of reflective surfaces and an enormous two-way laptop display behind which Raven shifts complicated codes with a wave of her arms, that is scary monsters.

Lurking beneath the high-tech dressing and entrepreneurial jargon is an old school morality story full with Biblical imagery (“Why do I feel like I’m making a deal with the Devil?”) full with a twist much like that in Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things.

Disruption, Park Theatre till August 5, Tickets: 020 7870 6876