Tricky to write about this without giving it away. . .
The play exists in an interactive live stream as well as in front of the audience, following an aspiring musician through her efforts to gain a following online and build her career. As it unfolds, we are called upon to question what is real and what is not, along with the ethics of the performative world of social media and how images can be manipulated to achieve a desired result.
There is a lot to like about the ideas and provocations in the play, yet somehow despite touring across a number of cities and festivals since it was first developed during Covid, for me it still felt like it struggled to show me a reason that the live elements needed to exist, rather than the performance only existing online. I think there is opportunity to make these differences more apparent, as the production was strongest in the moments where it did so, with deep honesty about itself and what it was doing.