{"id":5551,"date":"2022-04-29T10:36:17","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/29\/electric-rosary-review-spooky-cyber-sister-spurs-startling-visions\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T10:36:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T08:36:17","slug":"electric-rosary-review-spooky-cyber-sister-spurs-startling-visions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/29\/electric-rosary-review-spooky-cyber-sister-spurs-startling-visions\/","title":{"rendered":"Electric Rosary review \u2013 spooky cyber-sister spurs startling visions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Royal Exchange theatre, Manchester<br \/><\/strong>Is a council-funded robot nun the answer to prayers at a convent in crisis? Tim Foley\u2019s prize-winning play proves ingenious and thrilling<\/p>\n<p>Startling and audacious in its conception, Tim Foley\u2019s play collides religion and technology, ritual and algorithms, tradition and innovation. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.writeaplay.co.uk\/history-of-the-prize\/\">Bruntwood prize for playwriting<\/a> winner in 2017, and only just receiving its premiere now, it is a brilliant example of what the competition should be all about.<\/p>\n<p>As the play opens, St Grace\u2019s Convent is in trouble. The mother superior has died, the coffers are almost empty and morale is low. In desperation, Elizabeth, the new acting mother, brings in Mary \u2013 a council-funded robot who divides opinion among the sisters. But could she be the miracle they all need?<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2022\/apr\/29\/electric-rosary-review-royal-exchange-theatre-manchester\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/7d82eb5546e6afb7aba3c67a23c7b87d416145ae\/497_739_3205_1923\/master\/3205.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=98e1ecd04328d76cf445b556dbf719ee\" title=\"Electric Rosary review \u2013 spooky cyber-sister spurs startling visions\" \/>Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterIs a council-funded robot nun the answer to prayers at a convent in crisis? Tim Foley\u2019s prize-winning play proves ingenious and thrilling<br \/>\nStartling and audacious in its conception, Tim Foley\u2019s play collides religion and technology, ritual and algorithms, tradition and innovation. A Bruntwood prize for playwriting winner in 2017, and only just receiving its premiere now, it is a brilliant example of what the competition should be all about.<br \/>\nAs the play opens, St Grace\u2019s Convent is in trouble. The mother superior has died, the coffers are almost empty and morale is low. In desperation, Elizabeth, the new acting mother, brings in Mary \u2013 a council-funded robot who divides opinion among the sisters. But could she be the miracle they all need? Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Royal Exchange theatre, ManchesterIs a council-funded robot nun the answer to prayers at a convent in crisis? Tim Foley\u2019s prize-winning play proves ingenious and thrilling Startling and audacious in its conception, Tim Foley\u2019s play collides religion and technology, ritual and algorithms, tradition and innovation. A Bruntwood prize for playwriting winner in 2017, and only just &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/29\/electric-rosary-review-spooky-cyber-sister-spurs-startling-visions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Electric Rosary review \u2013 spooky cyber-sister spurs startling visions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5552,"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\/5551"}],"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=5551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}