MCNEAL by Ayad Akhtar
Schedule
Thu Jan 15 2026 at 07:30 pm to 09:30 pm
UTC-05:00Location
134 Cannon Street, Charleston, SC, United States, South Carolina 29403 | Charleston, SC
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From the pen of Pulitzer Prize winner Ayad Akhtar comes a “brilliant and transfixing new play” about Artificial Intelligence, American ambition, and moral ambiguity. At its center is Jacob McNeal: literary lion, Nobel Prize perennial, and a man whose brilliance is matched only by the size of his blind spots. A new novel looms. An estranged son resurfaces. Old enemies circle. And McNeal - equal parts provocateur, perfectionist, and self-mythologizer - finds himself captivated, even seduced, by the generative power of artificial intelligence. As the lines between creation and replication blur, McNeal faces a crisis both artistic and existential: What happens when the storytelling machine becomes capable of telling your story better than you can?
Directed by Sharon Graci
Featuring David Whalen, Camille Lowman, Joy Vandervort-Cobb, Sylvia Jefferies, and Journey Townsend
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