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The Nether presented by Flat Earth Theatre, extended through June 30th at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, Massachusetts Tickets: Here
almost home
occasionally subtle
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"

Monterey Bay Aquarium
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Performances added!
The Nether presented by Flat Earth Theatre, extended through June 30th at the Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, Massachusetts Tickets: Here

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What's it like to log into the smash online hit of 2006 in the year 2018? It feels a lot like a dead mall.
It seemed to me that, like a lot of Silicon Valley creations, "Second Life" offered the promise of a revolution, but merely delivered a normative, if slightly recontextualized reality. Another transfer of wealth with good PR. Instead of U.S. dollars, we had Linden Dollars. In a world where everyone could fly, people still built stairs.
"Maybe this will help you climb out of your fear."
Julia Talbot as Iris in The Nether presented by Flat Earth Theatre, June 8 - 23, 2018 The Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, Massachusetts Tickets: Here
Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire. My soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I? A fallen man, I climb out of my fear. The mind enters itself, and God the mind, And one is One, free in the tearing wind.
Theodore Roethke, “In a Dark Time”
The intense identity aggregation of products like Google and Facebook is pushing users towards anonymous services. Whisper and Secret are both making headlines, each promising an escape from the ruthless scrutiny of mainstream social networks. While these services are great for providing a momentary distraction, they are still doing nothing to address the core problem…
It is not about being anonymous or even pretending to be someone else. It is about controlling which subsets of true facets of a person are relevant in different social contexts. This is fundamentally not deceptive but actually enables one to be authentic.
Outside of the Internet, it is extremely difficult to find out information about a person so that we can easily and naturally compartmentalize our experiences. A person can go to a health support group and discuss issues with their diagnosis, and then later they can go to a car show and discuss their love of 60’s muscle cars. They don’t worry much about someone in the car show reacting poorly to them because they are sick. This person is not a different person in these settings — it is always the same person — but different parts of their identity are relevant.

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Indeed, it’s a fact that the man has such and such a fantasy. And it is such a tangible fact, for instance, that when a man has a certain fantasy, another man may lose his life.
“What are you afraid of?”
Julia Talbot as Iris in The Nether presented by Flat Earth Theatre, June 8 - 23, 2018 The Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, Massachusetts Tickets: Here
The social lives of networked teens. And why blaming technology misses the point.
And part of that technological perspective is also because there were all of these great hopes and dreams — the Internet would be this magical transformation, it would create a level of egalitarianism, it would be the freeing democratic mechanism for the world writ large, it would bring about the next Enlightenment — all of these big dreams. And I sort of scratched my head, being like, “I'm not sure this is how this is going to play out.”
And what intrigued me was that as these technologies became part of everyday life, what we saw is that people brought with them all of their flaws, all of their everyday concerns and interests. And that's what makes it really tricky, because we want to see the extremes, but the practices themselves are just about what it says about humanity.
The right to remain anonymous is a fundamental component of our right to free speech, and it applies every bit as much in the digital world as it does in the physical one. In the words of the U.S. Supreme Court in McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, “Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.”
ACLU Statement on Online Anonymity and Identity
“I want to talk about where this story might go, because I don’t think that this story is over yet, and I think that we are at the brink of a revolution not unlike the printing press, not unlike the internet, and I think it is both a technological revolution and a sexual revolution. And I do not think that we are really very well prepared for it, so that’s part of why I wanted to talk about it today. “ – Patchen Barss

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“Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.“ – John Perry Barlow, A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace
Bob Mussett as Sims/Papa and Regine Vital as Morris in The Nether presented by Flat Earth Theatre, June 8 - 23, 2018 The Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, Massachusetts Tickets: Here
Los Angeles playwright Jennifer Haley talks about technology and the future of theater.
MR: You often explore identity in your work, and there’s this whole idea of a virtual identity, that you can craft yourself a completely different identity over the internet. Is this identity authentic? It seems like it’s distancing: you can have a different name and behave in a different way.
JH: And that’s the question. Is it distancing? Or is it just a form of intimacy? We think we’re so connected to our physical bodies, but what if there is a spirit? And what if technology is allowing our spirits to communicate with each other in a way we never could before?
“We already live in our cultural imagination” – @jenniferhaley in an interview with The L.A. Review of Books
Julia Talbot as Iris in The Nether presented by Flat Earth Theatre, June 8 - 23, 2018 The Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, Massachusetts Tickets: Here
by John Perry Barlow Governments of the Industrial World, you weary giants of flesh and steel, I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.We have no...
Our world is different.
Cyberspace consists of transactions, relationships, and thought itself, arrayed like a standing wave in the web of our communications. Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live.
We are creating a world that all may enter without privilege or prejudice accorded by race, economic power, military force, or station of birth.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
Your legal concepts of property, expression, identity, movement, and context do not apply to us. They are all based on matter, and there is no matter here.
Flat Earth Theatre presents
The Nether
by @jenniferhaley directed by Sarah Gazdowicz June 8 - 23, 2018
The Mosesian Center for the Arts Watertown, Massachusetts
The Nether is an immersive online wonderland where anything is possible. “Papa” holds court in his virtual garden, a sensory utopia where patrons may indulge their darkest fantasies under digital anonymity and without real-world consequences. But when Detective Morris investigates Papa’s dealings, she uncovers a series of darkly unsettling acts which throw morality, the law, and human nature itself into question. Hailed by The Independent as “a gripping and deeply disconcerting look at the Internet and its role in one of the most disturbing issues of our time,” Jennifer Haley’s science fiction crime drama The Nether tackles the impact of technology on human relationships, identity, and desire.
The Nether contains adult themes, language, and imagery. Parental discretion advised.
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