{"id":17791,"date":"2025-02-18T14:37:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/east-is-south-review-weighty-ai-drama-takes-aim-at-humanitys-biggest-questions\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T14:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T13:37:16","slug":"east-is-south-review-weighty-ai-drama-takes-aim-at-humanitys-biggest-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/east-is-south-review-weighty-ai-drama-takes-aim-at-humanitys-biggest-questions\/","title":{"rendered":"East Is South review \u2013 weighty AI drama takes aim at humanity\u2019s biggest questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hampstead theatre, London<br \/><\/strong>The actors, especially Kaya Scodelario, work hard with Beau Willimon\u2019s plot, but are hampered by a leaden, tension-light production<\/p>\n<p>House of Cards writer Beau Willimon\u2019s new play East Is South deals with the ethics and advancement of AI. But despite the transformative subject matter, Ellen McDougall\u2019s production has as much propulsion as a car in reverse.<\/p>\n<p>Skins actor Kaya Scodelario plays Lena, a former Mennonite and gifted coder, who is wrestling with the expanding consciousness of Logos, the software her company has developed. We meet her as she is preparing to be questioned by the workplace bigwigs who watch her from the upper level of Alex Eales\u2019s two-tiered sciene-inspired set as if she is a caged animal. Lena and her lover, Sasha (Luke Treadaway) are being investigated after a security breach. For a fleeting second, the tension in McDougall\u2019s direction is sky-high.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2025\/feb\/18\/east-is-south-review-beau-willimon-kaya-scodelario\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/266c911d6b2233eb98cf21b4739c0e520218ba3b\/741_306_1893_1136\/master\/1893.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9e82746cc604a38d8424f4266214b52d\" title=\"East Is South review \u2013 weighty AI drama takes aim at humanity\u2019s biggest questions\" \/>Hampstead theatre, LondonThe actors, especially Kaya Scodelario, work hard with Beau Willimon\u2019s plot, but are hampered by a leaden, tension-light production<br \/>\nHouse of Cards writer Beau Willimon\u2019s new play East Is South deals with the ethics and advancement of AI. But despite the transformative subject matter, Ellen McDougall\u2019s production has as much propulsion as a car in reverse.<br \/>\nSkins actor Kaya Scodelario plays Lena, a former Mennonite and gifted coder, who is wrestling with the expanding consciousness of Logos, the software her company has developed. We meet her as she is preparing to be questioned by the workplace bigwigs who watch her from the upper level of Alex Eales\u2019s two-tiered sciene-inspired set as if she is a caged animal. Lena and her lover, Sasha (Luke Treadaway) are being investigated after a security breach. For a fleeting second, the tension in McDougall\u2019s direction is sky-high. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hampstead theatre, LondonThe actors, especially Kaya Scodelario, work hard with Beau Willimon\u2019s plot, but are hampered by a leaden, tension-light production House of Cards writer Beau Willimon\u2019s new play East Is South deals with the ethics and advancement of AI. But despite the transformative subject matter, Ellen McDougall\u2019s production has as much propulsion as a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/18\/east-is-south-review-weighty-ai-drama-takes-aim-at-humanitys-biggest-questions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Is South review \u2013 weighty AI drama takes aim at humanity\u2019s biggest questions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}