One of these performers closely resembling the German writer Thomas Melle is the only actor to appear on stage in Rimini Protokoll’s play Uncanny Valley. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this type of performer who interacts with four human actors in Pipeline Theatre’s production Spillikin. The name of this sort of being was coined in a 1920 Czech drama.
ANSWER: robots [or androids]
[10m] Robot actors named Billy, Hans, and Brack-bot appear in Elizabeth Meriwether’s 2006 adaptation of this play for a mixed human and robot cast. A pined-for ex-lover in this play is idealized as having “vine leaves” in his hair.
ANSWER: Hedda Gabler (by Henrik Ibsen) (Meriwether’s play is called Heddatron.)
[10h] This playwright has experimented with robot performers in his plays I, Worker and the Sayonara series. This Japanese playwright pioneered what he calls “contemporary colloquial theater” in plays like Tōkyō Notes and Citizens of Seoul.
ANSWER: Oriza Hirata [or Hirata Oriza]
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