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Theatre

Teh Internet is Serious Business, Royal Court

17 Sep 14 – 25 Oct 14, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM

Tim Price's drama decodes the depths of online opportunism with a fictional account of the real life  'hacktivists' who infiltrated capitalist cooperations...

By Lucy Brooks on 30/6/2014

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Teh Internet is Serious Business, Royal Court
Teh Internet is Serious Business, Royal Court
Teh Internet is Serious Business, Royal Court Teh Internet is Serious Business, Royal Court Lucy Brooks

It's not just a deliberate type-o, the attention-grabbing title of Tim Price's latest play is also a cunning internet in-joke. For those that aren't 'meme' literate, this sincere-sounding adage is a universal online joke, used as a sarcastic slang to deride those taking things too seriously, or to ironically highlight the very opposite of seriousness. And, as annoying as it looks, the mis-spelt 'the' reflects one of the most frequent errors in an age of lightening fast typing. 


The Story...


The shock and bafflement when a relatively small, young and inexperienced group of individuals with a strong social conscience, operating under the names of Lulzsec and Anonymous, hacked into some of the world's most powerful cooperations (the US Department of Justice, Visa, Sony, The Sun Newspaper) provides inspiration for this tale of unlikely friendship, ingenuity and bravery in the internet age. The Internet is a Serious Business tells tale of two teenagers who meet online and strike up a friendship -- so far, so normal until they end up embroiled with the F.B.I...


The Creatives...


Award-winning Playwright Tim Price is renowned for bold, political plays. Protest Song, his politically-charged monologue exploring the Occupy movement, performed with pizazz by Rhys Ifans, established the Price as a keen ventriloquist of contemporary issues. Along with a passion for representing politics, the playwright also has an interest in the subcultures that surround him; the combination of online trends and the morals behind 'hacktivisim' upon which this latest play is built offers fascinating scope, and a different kind of revolution.  


This will be the new Royal Court Associate Director Hamish Pirie’s first time directing at the venue. It's an exciting debut project, and having worked alongside Price three times before, for both smaller Fringe shows and for Donmar Warehouse's Trafalgar Studio season, he is well-suited to the edgy, absorbing writing we expect from Price. 



What Teh Internet is Serious Business, Royal Court
Where Royal Court Theatre, Sloane Square, London, SW1W 8AS | MAP
Nearest tube Sloane Square (underground)
When 17 Sep 14 – 25 Oct 14, 7:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Price £10-£32
Website Click here to book via the Royal Court



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  • CULTURE WHISPER SAYS

    Upon walking into the Royal Court to see Teh Internet is Serious Business, we defy anyone not to have the overwhelming urge to jump into the giant ball pit that makes up half of the stage. The design of this production is superb, with trapdoors and climbing frames adding to the sense of the internet as a giant playground for the not-quite grownup.

    The show has its faults - the second half is much stronger than the first and it could benefit from being half an hour shorter - but this is theatre for a younger generation and it does fire its message home as the no-rules world of the web begins to have consequences in real life. Make sure you pick up a cast list, not least because a number of the internet slang words and references are explained for those less technologically minded. Oh, and look out for a spot of Rick-Rolling...

    REAL LIFE HACTIVISTS

    In the course of developing this show, The Royal Court worked with two former members of hacking group Anonymous. The pair, Jake Davies from Shetland and Mustafa Al-Bassam from Stockwell were involved with a broad hacking operation targeting websites they believed to be against Wikileaks. Since pleading guilty and serving their sentences the two boys have been in conversation with playwright Tim Price -- so expect an authentic and accurate script.

    THE ROYAL COURT

    Sloane Square’s Royal Court is London’s theatre du jour. Challenging productions, new British talent and atmosphere of radicalism ensure it’s every thespian’s first port of call, despite the well-heeled, un-groovy location.  

    The Court’s Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone  has followed her  bold inaugural season by further shaking things up with the 2014--15 focus on new writing and hard-hitting themes, all falling loosely under the category of revolutions, which Featherstone describes as '"a cry against apathy... active resistance, big and small, about how we can make change happen." 

    Not that proceedings at the Court were unshaken; her predecessor Dominic Cooke managed to challenge audiences throughout his tenure. There are two stages -the mid-capacity Jerwood Theatre Downstairs and the very intimate studio space Jerwood Theatre Upstairs. 

    The basement bar has a great menu, and is in perms-night-time --  sexy lighting, lots of dark corners and the occasional off-duty actor nursing a cappuccino. The thespy bookshop’s great, too

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