An uncomfortable visit to “The Nether”
I know how to show a girl a good time so, earlier this week, I took my wife out for our wedding anniversary to see a play about the dark side of the Internet. It is called “The Nether” and is playing at the Duke of York’s theatre in central London.
The play only has five characters and lasts just 80 minutes, but it is visually very creative and the American writer Jennifer Haley’s has crafted a work that is immensely thought-provoking. It challenges whether the real world and the on-line world are truly separate by representing an avatar as committing acts that in the real world are horrendous crimes but in cyberspace could be argued as having no consequence.
We had a good meal beforehand at a restaurant opposite the theatre called “La Roche” which serves Mediterranean cuisine with Moroccan and Lebanese influences.