Andrew Stein’s play about the consequences of AI on our daily lives might well have been called Algorithm and Blues.

Three New York couples are tempted by their wealthy entrepreneur and best friend Nick (Oliver Alvin-Wilson) into investing in his latest scheme which will take life-enhancing algorithms to the next level.

Working with his partner, the young and ubersmart Raven (Sasha Desouza-Willock), he has come up with an idea so good that Google has given them $50m to develop it.

In an apparent gesture of altruism, Nick wants to give the opportunity of a lifetime to his friends, allowing each of them to become unimaginably wealthy.

One by one they fall for Nick’s persuasive sales pitch, there is only one holdout – psychiatrist Suzie (Debbie Korley) – who has doubts.

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Sharply directed by New Yorker Hersh Ellis on Zoë Hurwitz’s cyber set of reflective surfaces and a huge two-way computer screen behind which Raven shifts complex codes with a wave of her hands, this is scary monsters.

Lurking beneath the high-tech dressing and entrepreneurial jargon is an old-fashioned morality tale complete with Biblical imagery (“Why do I feel like I’m making a deal with the Devil?”) complete with a twist similar to that in Neil LaBute’s The Shape of Things.

Disruption, Park Theatre until August 5, Tickets: 020 7870 6876

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