Artificial intelligence-powered theater is here, and it's hilarious.

Everyone's talking about it. With varying degrees of understanding, it's one of the topics that comes up in conversations, crowned with a big question mark. It's already here, even if we don't see it. Artificial intelligence is infiltrating everywhere. A great tool for the present and future for some, a virus that annihilates jobs for others, and pandemonium for everyone. Even something as human as theater has been devoured by the technological Big Brother in the new play by Gabriel Calderón.

With the ironic title ofOh! Misery will make us happy, the Uruguayan playwright who fascinated us with The Story of a Wild Boar (or Something About Ricardo) It proposes a histrionic and hilarious dystopia about the future of theater. A theater colonized by robots, which have relegated human actors to technical maintenance tasks and deprived them of what is their own and most essential element: acting. Marginalized in a small, dilapidated room next to the toilets—a warning to plumbing companies, because robots don't need them—three humans—two actors and an actress—receive a visit from a girl—human or robot, that remains to be seen—fascinated by theater and who wants to join the company. They are human, but less so, since the robots have monitored their feelings.

And what a first scene! Fabulous. With Pere Arquillué and Joan Carreras as heirs to the clowns. Beckettians in a register perfectly balanced by histrionics. Like Laura Conejero's Laura, who thinks only of retirement. I don't think we've ever seen her so wonderfully unhinged. Her fall upwards down the stairs in another scene is brutal, absolutely hilarious. Daniela Brown seems to be the most human—but appearances can be deceiving—and completes a stellar cast. What a dizzying text! What speed and what a frenetic rhythm from beginning to end. There's only a brief respite when Calderón de la Barca's words are introduced. If a Story of a wild boar An actor's life was steeped in Shakespeare's words; in this new proposal, it is the blossoming word of the author of Life is a dream, The great theater of the world either The Constant Prince This fuels the protagonists' interpretive nostalgia. Although the ending may seem somewhat confusing, it doesn't matter. A great play about theater!