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You & It
์ ์ค์
Official English Title
Other Titles: You & Ai
SOURCE
original
SETTING
Fictional
BOOK
original
A widower rebuilds his wife as AI
Korean Premiere
2018
Korean Premiere Theatre
Cote Jari (๊ฝ์๋ฆฌ ๋ค๋ฐฉ) Rooftop Stage, Daegu
Further Korean run reference:
https://namu.wiki/w/%EC%9C%A0%EC%95%A4%EC%9E%87
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Summary
A grieving man recreates his lost wife through artificial intelligence, raising intimate questions about love, memory, and what makes someone human.
Origin & Development
You & It was developed as an intimate science-fiction musical about bereavement and artificial intelligence, in which one man's attempt to reconstruct his late wife examines memory, identity, and emotional dependence. It premiered in 2018 on a small rooftop stage in Daegu and won the Creative Musical Award at the 2019 Daegu International Musical Festival (DIMF).
International development began in 2023, when the show was presented in London as You&AI at the Wonderville Theatre in collaboration with UK-based Carter Dixon McGill Productions, and it returned to the same venue for a further showcase in 2024. In August 2024 it joined the Assembly Korean Season at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a fully localized English-language production, with Rumi Sutton (Your Lie in April) as Mina and Christopher Chung (Here Lies Love) as Gyujin, musical direction by Lee Eung-gyu, and keyboard by Daeun Min. Scottish Field gave it five stars, and it was selected for Mervyn Stutter's Pick of the Fringe 2024.
The musical examines loneliness and the erosion of emotional intimacy in what it calls a "nano-society," asking through the relationship between Gyujin and AI-Mina whether love can survive when memory and identity are artificially reconstructed. Performed by two actors, its score combines piano, minimal electronics, and lyrical vocal lines.
Partial Synopsis
A grieving man recreates his lost wife through artificial intelligence, raising intimate questions about love, memory, and what makes someone human.
You & Ai
2023
2023-09-01
to
2023-09-01
Country:
United Kingdom
City:
London
Production Type:
Reading / Showcase
Language:
English
Venue:
Wonderville Theatre
Presented as a showcase under the title You & Ai by a UK cast and creative team localizing the work, which EG Musical Company first developed in Daegu's Bukseong-ro.
You & It
2024
2024-08-01
to
2024-08-25
Country:
United Kingdom
City:
Edinburgh
Production Type:
Licensed
Language:
English
Venue:
Assembly Checkpoint
Following productions in South Korea and Taiwan and showcase performances in London, the musical became the first Korean original to present a fully localized English-language production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it played a month-long run.
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