Uncanny Valley review – a menacing robot examines the meaning of life

It's the fingers that get to me. Bitten and weathered, the skin worn down in places, they are incredibly detailed and utterly convincing. I'm looking up close at an animatronic, or robot, of the German writer Thomas Melle. The show proper – a lecture delivered by this robot – has finished and the audience has been invited on stage to study our automated actor. It feels like viewing time at the zoo and I can't shake the feeling that this robot is somehow going to wake up, reach out and grab me.