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I mean, it's a craxy fucked-up world, but this is more craxy than usual.

Huh. Hedda Gabler is my favorite Ibsen play, and pro'lly ranks up in my top five favorite plays. Dunno about this, though:

It has become passé for fringe theater to reinterpret classic works in new, often bizarre ways - The Importance of Being Earnest performed by dominatrices, Death of a Salesman in a disco. But on February 8 in New York City, the underground theatrical superstars Les Freres Corbusier premiere the first production of Hedda Gabler in which half of the major roles are played by robots. Not humans in funny suits, but walking, talking machines performing live onstage. It's titled, naturally, Heddatron.

Aaron Lemon-Strauss, the show's producer, has an unassuming air - you wouldn't expect him to be responsible for this kind of craziness. And over lunch recently in Union Square, he makes a convincing case that his approach to the play is anything but mad. "Hedda Gabler, of all Ibsen's plays, is about transcendence, the desire to escape this world and the characters' inability to escape the roles society shapes for them," he says, looking down at his vegetarian chili, then back up as though it had spoken to him. "It made perfect sense: robots."

Hedda Gabler, which many consider Henrik Ibsen's masterpiece, tells the story of a deeply conflicted woman whose world comes crashing down when she's faced with the success of a former lover. The resulting tensions between loyalty, social position, and her own heart drive the action. Heddatron is considerably less linear. It bounces from robots enacting a doomed staging of Hedda Gabler, to student book reports on Ibsen's plays, to a mother in Ypsilanti, Michigan, whom the robots abduct to star in their production, to Ibsen's house, where the playwright lives with his overbearing wife and what the script terms a kitchen slut. The 19th-century Swedish playwright August Strindberg also appears, carrying a sack of used condoms and writing plays with a Sharpie that's glued to his crotch.

OK, that's just silly.

It might be difficult for machine actors to convey the full dimensions of the human condition. But Elizabeth Meriwether's strange script cuts to the heart of Ibsen's story: A woman chained up in her own life struggles to break free of social programming. That struggle is mirrored by the robots, who attempt to escape their own programming and achieve true AI - self-awareness.

Um....

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Aaron Lemon-Strauss

...who's ancestor invented yellow jeans. They didn't catch on.

Oh that poor, sweet dog.

I got a solid 8 hours of sleep last night, and I still want to crawl back into bed. Oh well. Tomorrow I can sleep in as long as I want. Or until ~6:30 pm, but even I'm not feeling quite that tired.

Thanks Theo !

Poor cute doggie!

And I think August Stringberg writing plays with a sharpie taped to his crotch is really funny! But weird.

HEEEEEElium.

I'm hungry. This pleases me to no end. Off to heat up Chicken Noodle Soup.

There was a piece on that staging on ...Studio360, I think. It sounded odd.

I'm going out to lunch with friends in the next hour sometime. Whenever their meeting gets out. Of course, I've been ready to chew off my own limbs for sustenence for the past hour. Never fails.

People! Talk! What shall I do this weekend as a reward for the serious domestic chorage I need to do? Answers compatible with two year olds receive extra credit. Additional bonus points for suggesting something fun to cook.

Burglar checks email while robbing house

WEST BEND, Wis. (AP) - Authorities were seeking Thursday a burglar who allegedly took the time to make coffee, cook and eat meals, take showers, pick out a change of clothes, watch television and check his e-mail while inside three rural Washington County homes this month.

Lori Menzel of the town of Kewaskum said the burglar left his Yahoo account open after checking his personal e-mail on the computer at her home.

"He never logged out,'' she said, adding: "He made himself at home here. He spent some time in our bedroom trying on my husband's clothes. I could tell he went through some of my clothes.''

Must remember to tape the repeats of Stewart and Colbert today. Apparently the governor of Illinois was on last night ("I'm here with Governor Blaj...Governor Blojo...Governor Smith of Illinois.") too.

Not just Governor Smith--he was redubbed in the caption as "Governor 'Rod Smith'"!