That is why we have prepared for you two online talks.
.You can look forward to questions of international cooperation and the place of artificial intelligence in theatre.
A fun and interesting talk (with questions) about international collaborations in professional theatre productions between Menagerie Theatre in The UK and European companies including Divadlo 6-16 in the Czech Republic… The highs, the lows and all that lies between…
Paul Bourne is a theatre Director and Producer.
He is Artistic Director of Menagerie Theatre in Cambridge, UK and teaches Theatre Practice and Creative Processes at The University of Cambridge, Stockholm School of Economics, Skolkovo (Moscow) JAMU (Brno), DAMU (Prague) and Meyerhold Theatre (Moscow).
His company exchanges productions with companies across Europe and Russia – always working on new texts – which are either produced in the UK then toured, or collaboratively produced in other countries and languages.
Paul has directed over 100 professional productions and been Artistic Director of The Hotbed Theatre Festival in Cambridge since 2001. His work is text-based with a strong visual aesthetic.
Is a research project celebrating the 100th year anniversary of the premiere of the theatre play R.U.R by author Karel Čapek, in which, the word “robot” was used for the first time in 1921. To celebrate this 100 years old jubilee Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics of the Charles University joined together with Švanda Theater in Smíchov and the organizers of Hackathons CEE Hacks to face their robots with a new challenge, not previously seen in its full extent – to make artificial intelligence write a screenplay.
The first phase of the project culminated with the premiere of a theatre production AI: When a robot writes a play with the purpose to create a screenplay made up of dialogues generated by artificial intelligence. The second phase is currently in the making, staged for 2022 when another premier with a more sophisticated linguistic model will be introduced.
This project was funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic in cooperation with prg.ai and the Theater Faculty of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague.
Rudolf Rosa will talk about the technical background of the project (how artificial intelligence generates a screenplay), David Košťák will talk about the creation of this particular screenplay and Daniel Hrbek will summarize the process of the play´s production.