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The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin review

This was my first time at The New Diorama Theatre for this production, an award winning venue. The New Diorama is at the cutting edge of British theatre. It has demonstrated its ability to spot and nurture rising talent: both For Black Boys... and Operation Mincemeat started their lives out at The New Diorama prior to their great acclaim.  The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin comes from theatre company TG Works, a migrant-led, experimental theatre company founded by Tommaso Giacomin and Manuela Pierri. The Uncontainable Nausea has played at The Venice Biennale, and as part of Voila! Festival, before working its way here to The New Diorama.  The play opens with the main character, Alec Baldwin (not the same), in conversation with an AI chat bot. T his juxtaposition presents a pensive, tense Alec, and a machine trying its best to relate. The result is a moving and surprisingly hilarious exchange, with the AI fumbling its way through normal conversation. Perhaps the best exam...