Gigi’s Party

The Den Theatre, Chicago

     The play takes place in the year 2058. Technology is deeply imbedded in the healthcare profession. Healthcare professionals receive several years of training in technology. Fatal diseases are a thing of the past. Because of medical advances, life expectancy will have risen to 160 from 70 years.

     The play explores highly positive, transformational benefits of technology against humanity’s struggle to adjust to rapid technological progress. The play questions how people will adjust to even quite positive and life enhancing changes. How will technology change our life a few years from now? How the future generation will handle depression and suicide and deal with it? What role will religion have in the future? These are some of the enduring questions that will be transformed by technology, but that we as individuals and as a society will still have to address.