Summary: A CAPTOR becomes interested in the prisoner's dilemma. The CAPTOR creates a real life experiment--trapping two people in two separate rooms. If one leaves, the CAPTOR murders the other. Later the CAPTOR adds a lever that will steal the other prisoner's food. The CAPTOR pretends the prisoners pulled the lever to encourage a prisoner to leave. The prisoners struggle with the guilt of abandoning their families or being responsible for another's death. The prisoners come to an understanding without being able to directly communicate.

CAPTOR: Kylie Cosgrove

FEMALE PRISONER: Deanna Cook

MALE PRISONER: Philip Murphy

https://www.amazon.com/Replicating-Consciousness-Short-Kelsey-Rain-ebook/dp/B08D835VGV

Replicating Consciousness by Kelsey Rain: Professor Moshe Vardi predicts technology could push unemployment past fifty percent in thirty years. This play is set twenty-four years in the future as that prediction begins to come to fruition. Myla has been preparing her whole life to be a surgeon. On her first day of her Trauma Surgeon residency, she is instructed to train "it." The Artificial Intelligence machine, Alexa, struggles to get along with Myla, struggles to learn to be a surgeon, and continues to make Myla question what it means to be human.

MYLA GRAVE: Kelsey Rain

ALEXA: Sadey Eppich

ATTENDING SURGEON: Sam Lyle

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