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    On ‘Spillikin – A Love Story’: Issues around the Humanoid Robot as a Social Actor on Stage
    Avant: Trends in Interdisciplinary Studies 8 (T): 265-271. 2017.
    The inclusion of media technology in theatrical plays (Saltz, 2013) follows a contingent fascination and entanglement between human actors, technology and automata (Reilly, 2011) on stage. The contemporary play Spillikin – A Love Story places a new digital ‘ac⁠tor’ in this debate: the humanoid robot as a socially interactive agent (Breazeal, 2002; Fong, Nourbakhsh, & Dautenhahn, 2003) and caring companion. This paper discusses the exhibition of sociability through the robot’s humanlike gestures …Read more