User Not Found
Dante or Die
Written by Chris Goode
BAM DEBUT
What happens to your digital life after you’re gone? If there were a magic button would you choose to delete your online history?
You enter a café and receive a set of headphones and a smartphone. Several tables away, a man is grappling in real time with something deeply private. Gradually, you bear digital witness via smartphone and the live performance to a stranger’s profound, moving experience.
User Not Found invites you to be a voyeur. Immersing you in the very private and the very public, this site-specific play activates some surprising considerations of our afterlife on the internet and our shifting notions of connection and community.
Created by Daphna Attias & Terry O’Donovan
Directed by Daphna Attias
Creative technology design by Marmelo
Lighting & set design by Zia Bergin-Holly
Music & sound design by Yaniv Fridel
Video design by Preference Studio
Costume design by Alessia Mallardo
Commissioned by In Good Company and supported by artsdepot’s Creative Residencies, Southbank Centre, University of Reading, South Street, The New Wolsey Theatre, Roundhouse London, Stone Nest and Farnham Maltings
The production is funded by IMAF, AHRC, Cockayne - Grants for the Arts & The London Community Foundation, The Wellcome Trust Public Engagement Fund & Arts Council England
Site-specific performance at
Greene Grape Annex
(753 Fulton St, Brooklyn)
Greene Grape Annex is an accessible facility.
Leadership support for theater at BAM provided by The Fan Fox & Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Inc.; The SHS Foundation; and The Shubert Foundation, Inc.
Leadership support for off-site programs provided by:
Leadership support for User Not Found provided by the BAM Young Producers
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