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Written by
  
Jennifer Haley

Playwright
  
Jennifer Haley

Place premiered
  
Kirk Douglas Theatre

4.3/5
Time Out

First performance
  
24 March 2013

Composer
  
Nick Powell

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Date premiered
  
24 March 2013 (2013-03-24)

Characters
  
Woodnut, Sims, Morris, Iris, Doyle

Similar
  
Taken at Midnight, My Night with Reg, Sunny Afternoon, King Charles III, Chimerica

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The Nether is a sci-fi crime drama written by American playwright Jennifer Haley. The play received its world premiere at the Kirk Douglas Theatre, California in March 2013, after being first developed at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center as part of the 2011 National Playwrights Conference. Subsequent productions have been mounted at the Royal Court Theatre in 2013, MCC Theater in 2014 and in the West End at the Duke of York's Theatre in 2015. It won the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize

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Plot

The play is set in the near future. The internet has evolved into the Nether, a vast network of virtual reality realms. Users may log in, choose an identity, and indulge any desire. When Detective Morris investigates a realm called The Hideaway where pedophiles may live out their fantasies involving children, she brings its creator in for interrogation. They discover they have made emotional attachments in his realm that blind them to the greater questions of ethical behavior, both in the imagination and the outside world.

Production history

The world premiere at Center Theatre Group was directed by Neel Keller. It won 7 Ovation Awards for design, acting, and Playwriting for an Original Play. Headlong and the Royal Court produced The Nether in London in 2014, with Jeremy Herrin directing. In 2015 the show transferred to the West End’s Duke of York’s Theatre, produced by Sonia Friedman Productions, Scott M. Delman and Tulchin Bartner Productions, and was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best New Play. Manhattan Class Company produced the play in New York City in 2015, with Anne Kauffman directing. Truman State University produced the show in fall 2015. San Francisco Playhouse produced the play in January 2016, as did the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company of Washington D.C. in April 2016, and the Alley Theatre in May 2016. The University of New Haven in Connecticut, the Sandra Feinstein-Gamm Theatre in Rhode Island, and the Benchmark Theatre in Denver, Colorado all have a production in March 2017.

References

The Nether Wikipedia