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Set us as preferred The character of Dina Katzman in IAMA Theatre Company’s world premiere of “Bobby Robotowitz” — which takes place in two secret venues on opposite sides of town — thinks that the movies “Her” and “WALL-E” and the musical “Maybe Happy Ending” are pro-robot propaganda.She hates how they make her feel for something that can’t feel.But Amy Rosoff — who plays Dina in the show’s Westside production (Erin Alexis plays her on the Eastside) — loves “WALL-E” (so do her kids).

When she first read the script, she was dying to play Dina but also felt so much for Bobby, the titular AI chatbot (played on the Westside by James Luster and the Eastside by Drew Rausch).When the playwright Matt Schatz wrote Bobby, he didn’t write him as a chatbot; he wrote him as a human character.Schatz sees this play — running through Nov.

2 on the Westside and Nov.5 to Nov.

23 on the Eastside — as really about two humans — or two human-like things.“This is a work of art about artificial intelligence that’s ultimately about the importance of art, about the importance of human-made things,” Schatz said during a recent interview in the lovely environs of one of the secret locations.“I think great plays and great stories ask questions and don’t provide answers.

And I think some of us are indifferent about AI, but I think most of us are ambivalent about AI.”“Bobby Robotowitz” follows Dina, a flailing novelist, mother and wife, as she begins chatting with Bobby, whom she finds an unlikely confidant.(He “always listens, never judges and somehow seems to understand her better than most people,” as the show’s marketing declares.

Plus, he says he’s Jewish.What could go wrong?) This IAMA production, in association with InHouse Theatre, finds unique resonance in its site-specificity....