Galway performance for hit tragi-comedy exploring grief and pull of AI
'Dead Air’, a tragi-comedy about grief and AI, which received four-star reviews at last year's Edinburgh Festival and has toured the UK and internationally, comes to Galway next week.
Billed as "a heartfelt, funny and glitchy deep dive into grief, ghosts and digital obsession”, this one-woman show explores what a grieving person would do for one more conversation following the death of a loved one.
Since Alfie’s dad died, he’s visited everyone’s dreams but hers. Desperate to talk to him, she resorts to AiR, an AI chatbot for the dead.
Written and performed by Alfrun Rose, 'Dead Air' is a play about the intense and understandable desire for one more chat. There’s no AI in the performance; instead it is intentionally analogue with an offbeat script as Alfrun plays seven characters, who are often in dialogue with each other.
“This play is about the madness of grief; how we try to hold on to the past and what happens when it holds on to us,” says Alfrun, about a piece which she wrote following her father’s death.
This tribute to his wicked sense of humour is also “a modern ghost story about the glitchy, glorious ways we keep the dead alive”.
The Scotsman’s review of ‘Dead Air’ at the Edinburgh Fringe praised its writing and performance as a blend of ‘grief, a comic cast and the cool, corporate world of AiR’.
Directed by Anna María Tómasdóttir, it will be at Druid's Mick Lally Theatre next Wednesday and Thursday, October 28 and 29, at 8pm. It’s for 16+. Tickets €18/€20 from druid.ie.