Uncanny Valley: the moving one-man play " starring an animatronic robot
It was a play that gave us the word "robot" " and now an android is the performer in a groundbreaking new production. But can it make us laugh " and cry? A figure sits alone on stage, dressed in comfy jumper and trousers, one leg crossed over the other. He slowly moves his hands and turns his head. But this sole performer in Uncanny Valley, by theatre company Rimini Protokoll, is not human. It is a lifelike animatr…