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1. www.broadway.com › buzz › 204791Playwright Ayad Akhtar on Blending Literature, Technology and ...

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   Oct 16, 2024 · Ayad Akhtar. (Photo by Emilio Madrid for Broadway.com) What do you get when you toss Hedda Gabler, King Lear, Madame Bovary and many other works of world literature into a chatbot? Pulitzer...

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   Oct 7, 2024 · Explore Ayad Akhtar's biography, theatre & movie credits. LCT: Junk, Disgraced (Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Tony nomination; Broadway and LCT3), The Who & The What (LCT3).

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4. www.nytimes.com › 2024/10/26 › theaterHow a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

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   Oct 26, 2024 · In “McNeal,” the playwright Ayad Akhtar explores the way artificial intelligence is disrupting the literary world and raising questions about creativity.

5. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › Males-are-Toxic:-AMales are Toxic: A Masculine Critique of Ayad Akhtar’s Play ...

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   Oct 22, 2024 · Hegemonic and toxic traits of masculinity are complex ideas that have affected personal relationships and social hierarchies for centuries. The play The Who & The What by Ayad Akhtar presents these traits through the male character Afzal, a Pakistani American citizen whose traditional culture and modern American lifestyle lead him to adopt these forms of masculinity. Therefore, the present ...

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   6 days ago · How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway. Alexandra Alter in The New York Times: This summer, Ayad Akhtar was struggling with the final scene of “McNeal,” his knotty and disorienting play about a Nobel Prize-winning author who uses artificial intelligence to write a novel.

7. www.adriandimanlig.com › the-hangover-report-ayadTHE HANGOVER REPORT – Ayad Akhtar’s new play MCNEAL is a head ...

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   Oct 9, 2024 · Akhtar is perhaps best known for having written Disgraced, a thought-provoking 2012 work that won the playwright a well-deserved Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His latest seeks to be just as provocative, telling the story of Jacob McNeal, an ambitious (fictitious) novelist — with a particular fascination for Artificial Intelligence — whose ...

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   Who is Ayad Akhtar?

   • Pakistani-American author and playwright Ayad Akhtar was the focus of a big Q&A session in March 2012, during an event sponsored by the Chicago Tribune.

   Ayad Akhtar's 'Disgraced' Makes Its West Coast Debut

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   What are some quotes by Ayad Akhtar?

   • Ayad Akhtar is the author of 'Homeland Elegies'. He is known for his quotes such as: "The secret of a happy life is respect. Respect for yourself and respect for others.","The established majority takes its 'we' image from a minority of its best and shapes a 'they' image of the despised outsiders from a minority of their worst.'", and"A day spent reading is not a great day."

   Ayad Akhtar (Author of Homeland Elegies) - Goodreads

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   What's so special about Ayad Akhtar's 'the who & the what'?

   • Ayad Akhtar’s 'The Who & The What' is special because it portrays the complex dynamics within a first-generation Muslim-American family, with particular attention to the 'gender politics' and the place of women in Islam.

   The Who & The What: A Play by Ayad Akhtar

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   How does Akhtar treat AI as an existential threat to human creativity?

   • Akhtar treats A.I. not as an existential threat to human creativity, but as a potential prosthetic enhancement to it. Erik Tanner for The New York Times For Akhtar, a key challenge in writing “McNeal” was figuring out how a chatbot would write it.

   How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

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   Did Akhtar create the illusion he was writing the play?

   • The German novelist and playwright Daniel Kehlmann, who read a draft of the play and has seen it twice, said he was stunned by how Akhtar created the illusion that A.I. was writing the play.

   How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

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   Does Akhtar Trust technology?

   • The audience feedback has been more reassuring, Akhtar said. The show has had a sold-out run, and demand remains high. Though McNeal comes to embrace A.I. wholeheartedly by the final act, after writing the play, Akhtar remains more ambivalent. Part of him still doesn’t fully trust the technology.

   How a Play About A.I. Lured Robert Downey Jr. to Broadway

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9. www.theatrereviews.com › broadway-review-mcneal-atBroadway Review: “McNeal” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater ...

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   Oct 7, 2024 · By Ayad Akhtar. Directed by Bartlett Sher. Reviewed by David Roberts. Theatre Reviews Limited. “McNeal,” currently on at the Vivan Beaumont Theater, is playwright Ayad Akhtar’s exploration into the unexpected confluence of plagiarism, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the canon of western literature through the life and writing of ...