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#9
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CURRENTLY CLOSED
Opened Jun 11, 2009
Closed Jun 28, 2009

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http://www.59E59.org

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?

From the Drama Desk nominated creators of The|King|Operetta comes a dizzying new music theater piece about the tools we use - and how they use us. Waterwell dives into a strange, bewildering world of digital immersion where the virtual is more real than reality.

THEATER/VENUE INFORMATION:



59E59 Theaters
59 E 59th St
New York, NY 10022


WHAT ARE CRITICS SAYING?

Marshall McLuhan would probably have approved the message implicit in
#9, the highly amusing and extremely ambitious experimental chamber musical collectively created by Waterwell, now at 59E59 Theaters, about life in the Internet age.

At the very least, he'd have appreciated the many intriguing questions it raises.
For example, let's start with netiquette, as the play does glancingly. Is it ever appropriate to twitter condolences? Or would that task call for the relative formality of e-mail?

In true McLuhanesque fashion, the script takes a "mosaic" approach to storyline, looping back and free-associating wildly. The essence is this: Four friends each face a personal challenge of the age[...]


Reviewed by Sandy MacDonald on Jun 12, 2009

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