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| n the five years since Mark Ravenhill's play was first performed and thence acclaimed worldwide, the virtual world of the Internet has made a considerable impact on all our lives. It is interesting to note that the controversial nature of the play's title plays heavily on two of the central concerns in our media obsessed, information gathering world. In this production the technology and source material of the medium is used in direct relation to the subject matter of the play. Each blackout serves to mark changes in setting and location throughout and these are indicated by material largely gathered predominantly from the Web. The relationship between the real and the virtual also penetrates into the scenes themselves and as such becomes an indicator and, to some extent, a warning as to the danger presented to us all of a world where the stuff of human relationships can be reduced to mere 'transactions'. Whether or not the material presented has a moral or amoral aspect is a question that each member of the audience must answer for themselves. But what is for certain, however, is that Mark Ravenhill's play necessarily poses these questions and does so through the telling of stories. As such, and as this is the essence of live theatre, these must be left for the actors to tell. After all, this is why you come to the theatre, isn't it? Anthony Shrubsall |
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