On the scene, like a sex-obsessed machine: when a robot writes a play

In a drama written by artificial intelligence, the computer's imagination touches on themes of love and loneliness - but is mostly obsessed with sex

Kazuo Ishiguro, whose new novel Klara and the Sun is about artificial intelligence, has said he is worried about a time when an AI programme is able to write fiction that can make me cry, that can show human emotions ... that can have the capacity for empathy".

The first drama to be written by artificial intelligence shows we are a long way from that future. Ninety per cent of its autobiographical" material has been generated from its depths while the remaining - human - touches are administered by a team of computer scientists, theatre-makers and academics. A partnership between the Czech Centre in London and Prague's vanda theatre, it is performed in Czech with English subtitles.