Hosted by Nancy Denis
Help Me, ChatGPT </3 by Tiffany Wong
A single gal conducts a dating experiment using ChatGPT and the audience as test subjects. The only problem? She’s also the guinea pig. Meet Tiffany: she’s not a comedian, but a self-proclaimed scientist, hopeless romantic, and now the enthusiastic test subject in her own AI-powered love experiment. After months of using ChatGPT as her unofficial therapist, she’s promoting it to research assistant – and together, they’re on a mission to find her soulmate from the audience. With ChatGPT’s help, Tiffany is diving into the unpredictable world of love, using data and storytelling to see if AI can truly crack the code of compatibility.
Remarkable Realisation of Ricky’s Modern Life by Erica Brennan
A breath taking exploration of legacy, motherhood, and the unseen forces that shape us, The Remarkable Realisation of Ricky’s Modern Life invites audiences into a world where memory, blood-magic, and reality collide. As Ricky, a visionary urban planner, records the story of her life, strange interruptions unravel the truth she’s fought to control—until she’s confronted with a reckoning she never saw coming. Lyrical, thought-provoking, and deeply imaginative, this spellbinding monologue asks: if legacy isn’t found in bloodlines, what do we leave behind that truly matters?”
Hey Simon! by Kate Bubalo
Lovebirds Aj and Amber live in domestic bliss, eagerly planning their upcoming wedding. However, their third wheel Simon the AI home assistant, begins to shed light on the cracks in their relationship; or is he creating these cracks himself? This story is a meditation on the male gaze and digital panopticons. As we increasingly rely on technology to live our lives, it begs the question: is there such a thing as a private space anymore? And when women have always been haunted by the unseen eye of patriarchal expectation, it poses another question: is this feeling even new for women?