On paper it looks an interesting idea, a story about "vacant bodies found slumped at their keyboards" as their "inner selves evaporate into the ethernet forever".
Unfortunately, David Weedall's repetitive and overlong story does not live up to this dramatic advertisement.
The play focuses on four cyberaddicts whose avatars (the digital image of themselves) meet on a strange website.
The quartet is made up of caricatures: the online sex addict, the web gambler, the fantasy game player and a Second Life obsessive.
There is little investigation into what brought them to their internet addictions in the first place. Instead we are just shown they spend most of their time online and informed that is a bad thing by the character of the hectoring, moralistic digital fixer Blaine.
When two of the avatars briefly reveal their true identities, we get a brief glimpse of what could have been a much more interesting play, before an extended coda about a science fiction future takes over.
- Until May 18. Starts 9pm, tickets £7/£6. Call 01273 709709.
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