Comic Potential

Comic Potential
Written byAlan Ayckbourn
CharactersMarmion
Prim Spring
Chandler Tate
Trudi Floote
Carla Pepperbloom
Adam Trainsmith
Jacie Triplethree
Lester Trainsmith
Date premiered4 June 1998
Place premieredStephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
Original languageEnglish
SubjectTelevision, science fiction
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Ayckbourn chronology
Things We Do for Love
(1997)
The Boy Who Fell Into a Book
(1998)

Comic Potential by Alan Ayckbourn is a romantic sci-fi comedy play. It is set in a TV studio in the foreseeable future, when low-cost androids (known as "actoids") have largely replaced actors.