{"id":19688,"date":"2017-03-24T16:45:22","date_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/?p=19688"},"modified":"2017-03-24T16:45:22","modified_gmt":"2017-03-24T16:45:22","slug":"arts-sci-fi-play-explores-dangers-virtual-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/2017\/03\/24\/arts-sci-fi-play-explores-dangers-virtual-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Arts: Sci-fi play explores dangers of virtual reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_19731\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19731\" style=\"width: 433px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19731\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Stacey Daly as Detective Morris and Chris Durnall, the plays director, as Doyle at the interrogation table.\" width=\"433\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-770x576.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-500x374.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-293x219.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19731\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19731\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Stacey Daly as Detective Morris and Chris Durnall, the plays director, as Doyle at the interrogation table.\" width=\"433\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-770x576.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-500x374.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP-293x219.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/DoyleandMorrisCROP.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/noscript> At the interrogation table: Stacey Daly as Detective Morris and Chris Durnall, the play&#8217;s director, as Doyle. Credit: Noel Dacey<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nether, a science-fiction play by Jennifer Haley, received its Welsh debut at Chapter Arts this week. <strong>David Lynch<\/strong>\u00a0went to see it.<\/span><\/i><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AS with all good science fiction, The Nether takes a prevalent theme of today\u2019s world and says \u201cwhat if&#8230;?\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this case the what if living in cyberspace, allowed us to live out dangerous fantasies.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The titular Nether is the successor of the internet in an unspecified time in the future, an infinite virtual space in which a large majority of people spend most of their waking lives hived off in self-contained worlds.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">People work in virtual reality offices, children attend virtual reality schools, whole families live together in virtual homes.<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19730\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19730\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19730\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"The axe: a significant moment in the play. credit: Noel Dacey\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-770x576.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-500x374.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-293x219.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19730\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19730\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"The axe: a significant moment in the play. credit: Noel Dacey\" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-770x576.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-500x374.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP-293x219.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandaxeCROP.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/noscript> A hatchet is wielded at a significant moment in The Nether.<br \/>Credit: Noel Dacey<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The troublesome nature of the Nether comes to light in protagonist Detective Morris\u2019 investigation into a realm of cyberspace called the Hideaway, where its programmer Mr Sims invites guests to explore paedophile urges.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cJust because it\u2019s virtual doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s not real,\u201d says Sims as Morris looms over the interrogation room table at him at the start of the play.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With that line, you realise that the drama playing out will be a moral and philosophical maze. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This theme is carried throughout the play, as arguments are batted back and forth about the nature of reality, the rights to exploring socially unacceptable thoughts, and the dangers of assuming new identities.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The immediate premise of the play recalled\u00a0elements from the 2002 Steven Spielberg film Minority Report, in which citizens of a future world were encouraged to indulge their more dangerous transgressions in virtual worlds to avoid being charged with thought crimes.<\/span><br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19729\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19729\" style=\"width: 437px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-19729\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Non Haf and Richard Huw Morgan in the Nether. credit: Noel Dacey\" width=\"437\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-770x576.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-500x374.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-293x219.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19729\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-19729\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Non Haf and Richard Huw Morgan in the Nether. credit: Noel Dacey\" width=\"437\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-1024x766.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-770x576.jpg 770w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-500x374.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP-293x219.jpg 293w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/thecardiffian\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2017\/03\/NonandRichardCROP.jpg 1027w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/noscript> Non Haf and Richard Huw Morgan in the Nether. credit: Noel Dacey<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But big blockbuster The Nether is not. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The play&#8217;s sets are minimalist with two settings: the police interrogation room, and the virtual Hideaway occupying the same stage space and divided by a flick of the stage lights.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The cast is also small, with five actors making up the full cast, two of whom must be commended for moving between the roles of major characters and stage technicians, operating the lighting and sound in between their scenes.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With actors watching from the sides when not playing their parts and dipping into their scenes, the Nether feels like an interactive team effort.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The small inventory of props is also constantly in the audience\u2019s eyeline, with some like the hatchet that rests in front of the lighting deck hinting at the dark desires played out in the Hideaway.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nether is a play that really makes you think about how we live our lives in both the real and the virtual worlds, and will make you question whether or not we should treat them as two separate things at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Nether is showing in Chapter Arts until Saturday, March 25. See <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chapter.org\/nether\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the Chapter website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> for details.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Nether, a science-fiction play by Jennifer Haley, received its Welsh debut at Chapter Arts this week. David Lynch\u00a0went to see it. AS with all good science fiction, The Nether takes a prevalent theme of today\u2019s world and says \u201cwhat if&#8230;?\u201d In this case the what if living in cyberspace, allowed us to live out dangerous fantasies. 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