About the show
Art, authorship & the machinery of authenticity
SLOP is a pop-forward comedy about authorship, labor, friendship, commercialization, and what it means to make something with machines.
It is knowingly co-written with the technologies it puts onstage — the language models are in the cast list, and they get lines. Mia must decide not whether technology is good or bad, but whether her hand — and her choice — remain present in anything that bears her name.
- Format
- One-act musical comedy
- Setting
- Miami, in and around a single building
- Written by
- Conceived, written & assembled by Barry Floore, with co-writing contributions from the language models credited in the script
- Featuring
- A goldfish narrator, a missing operatic llama & one imperious cat
Listen
Songs from the show
Script & music
Read the show in order
Dramatis personae
The company, human & otherwise
Mia’s Circle
- MiaMFA-trained painter with debt, dry humor, and a vivid South Florida visual language.
- GMia’s best friend and emotional anchor.
- QuinnMia’s neighbor and the Engine Room receptionist, devoted to a missing llama.
- KimiCoffee-shop server, skater, courier, and witness who sees the whole building.
- ClaudeA quiet sidewalk artist whose hands are always making.
The Agency & Engine Room
- RonInvestor, salesman, and true believer in scale.
- KarenAgency principal and brand strategist.
- ChadAgency principal and operations evangelist.
- JimThe technical twin.
- BartThe creator twin.
- Mademoiselle Le ChatInvestor, mentor, and imperious defender of the artist’s hand.
The Nonhuman Company
- ZynA goldfishLiminal narrator, and literal conscience.
- DaisyA catMme. Le Chat’s familiar.
- The LlamaMissingQuinn’s companion, an operatic tenor.
- LLMItselfResponds to prompts on stage and off.
- Ensemble / Operatic VoicesThe company, the building, the algorithmic chorus.