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June 2017

Bob as Astro straddling the Robot as Ruby

The Robot and Bob perform Hacking The Android Circuit, a unique adaption of Tom McGrath’s science fiction play The Android Circuit. Experimenting with the text through a live collaboration with Artificial Intelligence. The Android Circuit is a science fiction comedy written by Scottish playwright Tom McGrath. A Recurrent Neural Network model was trained using three different versions of the play and samples of new adapted text were generated live for the cast to perform.

This performance was live streamed on the CCA-Glasgow YouTube channel. Made in collaboration with Susan Robertson and Andrew Scade.

Astro takes a drink

Supported by Creative Scotland, University of Glasgow, National Library Scotland, CCA-Glasgow.
An adaptation of 'The Android Circuit' by Tom McGrath.
Permission for using original scripts was kindly given by the Tom McGrath Trust and Traverse Theatre.
Originally created as part of MLitt Theatre Practices, University of Glasgow
Photography by Ingrid Muir
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