The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin review – slapdash absurdism

2026-03-08 - 16:53

New Diorama theatre, London A man bearing the same name as the actor wants to apologise to a woman for something he has ‘accidentally’ done in this patience-testing undisciplined drama ‘The following scenes are AI generated,” the projected text declares. Revealing the flattening, slopifying effect of AI, this delegation of the script might come across as audacious and intrepid – making a point about our over-reliance on AI and the doom it spells for society – if only the human-written chunks of this patience-testing play were any stronger. From experimental company TG Works, The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin is an absurdist trudge around ideas of violence, distraction and apathy in the age of the internet. But where they aim for existentialism, they land with a slump at the foot of randomness. Continue reading...