Emily Cardings Quintessence
b'Our friend Emily Carding performs their solo show\\xa0Quintessence\\xa0this week at the Brighton Fringe Festival (where it won the "Outstanding Theatre Award" in 2019) and talks about how the show was inspired by their love of Shakespeare, science-fiction, and Frankenstein. Featuring the embodiment of an artificial intelligence onstage;\\xa0starting out life as a commission from the London Science Museum; influences ranging from Shakespeare\\u2019s Ariel to Star Trek\\u2019s Data; the power and profundity of silliness; the elimination of barriers provided by Fringe performing spaces; upcoming pub garden performances of As You Like It\\xa0with the Open Bar Theatre;\\xa0and real-life warnings about how humanity will ultimately be destroyed \\u2014 and possibly be reborn. (Length 20:22)'