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User Not Found
It's the moment of your death.
There's a magic button.
Do you delete your entire online legacy?
Or do you keep it – and leave the choice for someone else?
USER NOT FOUND is about our digital lives after we die. Dante or Die's play, created with pioneering theatre-artist Chris Goode, is inspired by a Guardian article by Caroline Twigg about dealing with her late husband's digital afterlife. In the play Terry becomes responsible for the online legacy of his partner - he is flooded with condolence texts and messages about his partner's death, and then has to decide what to keep and what to delete.
The performance was originally developed with creative technologists Marmelo, and was performed in a café, where the audience share Terry's story through smartphones and headphones. In this format the play was performed in cafés across the country, including at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe.
The audience become a fly-on-the-wall to peer into the life of a man who is faced with keeping or deleting. A story of contemporary grief unfolds through this intimate, funny performance that gently interrogates our need for connection. "With his tender script, [Goode] hands us each the weight of the internet and asks how we get closure in a world where nothing ever switches off." The Guardian.
There's a magic button.
Do you delete your entire online legacy?
Or do you keep it – and leave the choice for someone else?
USER NOT FOUND is about our digital lives after we die. Dante or Die's play, created with pioneering theatre-artist Chris Goode, is inspired by a Guardian article by Caroline Twigg about dealing with her late husband's digital afterlife. In the play Terry becomes responsible for the online legacy of his partner - he is flooded with condolence texts and messages about his partner's death, and then has to decide what to keep and what to delete.
The performance was originally developed with creative technologists Marmelo, and was performed in a café, where the audience share Terry's story through smartphones and headphones. In this format the play was performed in cafés across the country, including at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe.
The audience become a fly-on-the-wall to peer into the life of a man who is faced with keeping or deleting. A story of contemporary grief unfolds through this intimate, funny performance that gently interrogates our need for connection. "With his tender script, [Goode] hands us each the weight of the internet and asks how we get closure in a world where nothing ever switches off." The Guardian.
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88 pages, Paperback
Published October 30, 2018
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December 28, 2022not sure how good it is but would have liked to have seen this live. interesting format.
February 15, 2019
The topic is more relevant than ever and the whole play is presented (and of course written) in a very creative way. It's very short and the story doesn't feel complete, even though the ending is clear. I feel like this play had a lot more potential than it used because the end felt very rushed, as if someone just deleted the second half of the story and put the end right at the point where I was starting to get invested in the story.
It seems like this play is very much focussed on its atmosphere and uniqueness, these are the main strenghes of it. Apart from that the play was quite disappointing, the characters seem shallow and most of their actions I couldn't really understand. There are a few very good moments, especially at the end, when we get a deeper insight into the main character's relationships, but just then everything was abruptly put to an end. Maybe that's just the style of the play? I don't know, it wasn't for me.
All in all it was an enjoyable read, but not a masterpiece.
It seems like this play is very much focussed on its atmosphere and uniqueness, these are the main strenghes of it. Apart from that the play was quite disappointing, the characters seem shallow and most of their actions I couldn't really understand. There are a few very good moments, especially at the end, when we get a deeper insight into the main character's relationships, but just then everything was abruptly put to an end. Maybe that's just the style of the play? I don't know, it wasn't for me.
All in all it was an enjoyable read, but not a masterpiece.
March 12, 2019
Interesting play that asks the question what happens to one’s online presence once we die
An immersive play, where the audience are handed mobile phones that illustrate the life of someone who has died
An immersive play, where the audience are handed mobile phones that illustrate the life of someone who has died
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