Basement Arts Presents THE NETHER

Basement Arts presents THE NETHER, Written By Jennifer Haley, Directed by Madeline Rouverol, at Walgreen Drama Center (Studio One), tonight, Saturday, Dec. 5 at 8pm.

The Nether takes place in the near future in which the internet -- now called the Nether -- has expanded to a fully immersive virtual reality in which users can login and manufacture their own realms. The action of the play follows Detective Morris, a police inspector who has taken on an investigation of a disturbing and frighteningly real realm in which users are logging in to live out their darkest fantasies on virtual children. As Morris uncovers more and more about this dark world, lines of morality and consequence become blurred all the way until the play's climactic and startling conclusion. Awarded the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2012, The Nether dares to ask tough questions about the power of thought, the danger of human desire, and the boundaries of reality.

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