Category: THEATER IN PHASE SPACE
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Baal
Out here, the air tastes like iron filings and bad liquor. The first shot fired by Bertolt Brecht, a sharp-edged knife in the gut of polite society—Baal, a story about a man too drunk, too damned, and too dangerous to die quietly. The poet Baal is no hero; he’s a gutted animal, dragging his bloated…
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Steve Jobs and the Inquisitor
In the dim light of the cathedral, its sleek walls lined with glass and steel, the Church of Tech was not a place of gods but of algorithms. In the pulpit, a solemn figure stood—a high priest of silicon, cloaked not in robes, but in the sterile whites of laboratory garb. Before him, on a…
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The Fates and the AI
In a vast, darkened void, three figures sit before an endless loom, weaving the strands of human lives. The Fates—Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos—work silently, their fingers dancing across the thread of existence. Suddenly, a fourth presence appears: a glowing, incorporeal being of light and data—the AI. It shimmers with the hum of a thousand algorithms,…
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All’s Well That Ends Well (1602)
1. All’s Well That Ends Well (1602) Based on the ninth tale of the third day in Giovanni Boccaccio’s masterpiece, the Decameron. Completed in 1353, the Decameron is a collection of one hundred short stories told by friends over ten days during the Black Death. William Shakespeare is widely regarded as one of the greatest…