Leah Letts has moved to Indiana with her 14-year-old daughter Deena to escape the rat race of New York City. Osterville is a safe haven, a place where people put down roots, where everyone knows everyone. Leah is determined to start over so Deena can grow up in a less threatening environment. She’s found the perfect place. And just for the summer, Leah lays down the law: no computer, no email, no Internet. Just 2 months to enjoy life lived offline.
But Deena has other plans.
USER 927 is a thriller about cyberstalking, search engines, and the way information is obtained, manipulated, and released in our wired world. This world premiere play is based on numerous trends pertaining to digital technology and the Internet, as well as the data leak of over 3 million AOL search queries by 650,000 of its users, first broken on sites like The Consumerist.
USER 927 takes a provocative look at the slick and seductive nature of computer and Internet technology—the come-ons and dangers that seem to spring from every click of the mouse. We have seemingly limitless information at our fingertips, and yet what do we really know? USER 927 integrates digital technology, video and flash animation to examine our simultaneous attraction to, and dread of, modern technology while offering audiences the chance to see an important public debate take a thrilling new direction.
cast: Elena Bossler, Dallas Drummond, Kaci M. Fannin, Greg Giovanni, Michele Guidry, Emilie Krause, Conrad Ricamora, and Peter Roccaforte
original music: Carl Cheeseman
video installation: A Chip & A Chair Films
Mixed & recorded by Tony Mascara at The Audio Lab
stage manager: Rebecca Smith
set design: Meghan Jones
lighting design: David O’Connor
costume design: Millie Hiibel
properties master: Scott Cassidy
Tickets on sale now. Click on a showtime below to order.
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* = Previews
All shows in the Studio at St. Stephen's Theater, 10th & Ludlow Streets in Philadelphia. Map it.
For groups of 10 or more, contact Michael Alltop at 215.627.2577 or michael@bratproductions.org