DANTE OR DIE: USER NOT FOUND
If there was a magic button at the moment of your death, would you delete your online history or keep it and leave the choice to someone else?
Exploring what happens to an online legacy at Theatre Royal Norwich
May 13, 6pm & 8.30pm
If there was a magic button at the moment of your death, would you delete your online history or keep it and leave the choice to someone else?
Terry O’Donovan & Daphna Attias, co-artistic directors of site-specific theatre company Dante or Die, say they hope to trigger a debate about this tricky issue during their show User Not Found – presented in the new Prelude restaurant at Norwich Theatre Royal on May 13, as part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival.
During the show, audience members receive headphones and smartphones which fake the operation of a mobile or tablet so they become ‘flies on the wall’. The performer’s character sits in the audience and tells his story, with his voice transmitted live through the headphones.
His partner has died and he has been left his online legacy, going on a journey exploring his own grief and how the online existence of his partner helps and hinders his grieving process.
O’Donovan and Attias say their audience will “see into the online world of someone faced with the questions that go hand in hand with any legacy: what should or shouldn’t you read and how privacy has changed as smartphones have become so entwined with our lives.
“We hope the production will spark a conversation with the person sitting next to you and will amuse, move you and trigger a debate with your loved ones.”
