Anthropology review – clever AI missing-person mystery

Hampstead theatre, London
Lauren Gunderson’s smart play finds a software engineer creating a digital version of a sister who has disappeared

While screenwriters strike, partly over the threat from artificial intelligence, playwrights are busy writing about AI. Lauren Gunderson’s Anthropology is the second world premiere in a week featuring pseudo-humanity – after Alan Ayckbourn’s Constant Companions – and the third such London play in six months, following Jordan Harrison’s Marjorie Prime and Andrew Stein’s Disruption. (Hermione Lee’s biography of …

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