{"product_id":"comic-potential-alan-ayckbourn-9780571197873","title":"Comic Potential: A Play","description":"\u003cp\u003eA sci-fi comedy thriller, \u003ci\u003eComic Potential\u003c\/i\u003e is a play set in the foreseeable future, when everything has changed--except human nature \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eComic Potential\u003c\/i\u003e is set in a television studio in the near future, where the director--an alcoholic has-been--and two assistants are making a daytime soap opera of the usual appalling sort. However, the difference here is that they are using actoids--robots programmed to act--and there are no scriptwriters. Into this situation comes the idealistic Adam, the nephew of the millionaire station owner, who wants to write comedy of the quality that Chaplin and Keaton once embodied. But when Adam falls in love with Jaycee Triplethree (JC333), one of the actoids on the show, everything is turned upside down as she grows more human and the line between actoid and human diminishes. When in anguish Jaycee finally cries that she can't say anything she hasn't been programmed to say, Adam points out that no one ever says anything original anyway.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alan Ayckbourn\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0571197876\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780571197873\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 96\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.40d","brand":"Alan Ayckbourn","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44059285717247,"sku":"9780571197873","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_37e7a970-81c4-41c9-aa3d-ee094bf5730d.jpg?v=1685057313","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/comic-potential-alan-ayckbourn-9780571197873","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}