Eliza - NFHN Reader

This is rated 4 out of 5 stars

Sydney Morning Herald for The Museum of Modern Love

ABOUT THE SHOW

As society grapples with the ethics of rapidly advancing and increasingly invasive technologies, director Paige Rattray (Black is the New White, Fangirls) delivers an urgent and unnerving depiction of the birth of artificial intelligence.

From four-time Australian Writers’ Guild AWGIE Award winner Tom Holloway (The Museum of Modern Love, Double Indemnity, Storm Boy) comes this riveting new psychological thriller based on real events.

Dr Joseph Weizenbaum (Dan Spielman: Black Snow, The Newsreader), a brilliant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, carries the trauma of a childhood fleeing Nazi Germany. When he begins testing a new computer program designed to simulate talk therapy – using details from his secretary Becky’s (Manali Datar: The Wrong Gods) private life – the lines between code and connection begin to blur. The project is lauded by colleagues, but as wider interest in his breakthrough intensifies, Weizenbaum begins to question the true cost of his innovation

Developed through Melbourne Theatre Company’s NEXT STAGE Writers’ Program, with the support of our Playwrights Giving Circle. Produced by Melbourne Theatre Company. Originally commissioned by Sydney Theatre Company.

Wheelchair Accessible
Hearing Assistance
Audio Described
Tactile Tour
Open Captioning
Closed Captioning
Auslan Interpreted

Performance Type	Performance Date(s)
Audio Described by Vision Australia	Saturday 17 October at 2pm Tuesday 20 October at 6.30pm
Tactile Tour at venue	Saturday 17 October at 2pm (Tactile tour commences at 1pm)
Open Captioning via screen	Saturday 24 October at 2pm
Closed Captioning GoTheatrical App	Saturday 24 October at 2pm
Auslan Interpreted	Tuesday 27 October at 6.30pm