The Nether at Woolly Mammoth Theatre

Winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Nether is both a serpentine crime drama and a haunting thriller that explores the darkest corners of our imagination -- and the consequences of living out our most private dreams. In this "haunting and highly original" play (The Telegraph), there's an exciting new virtual wonderland that provides total online sensory immersion. You just log in, choose an identity and then vanish into a dizzying array of online realms while you indulge your every whim. But when a young detective discovers a realm of hideous crimes being committed within this online world, she moves to interrogate its creator. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co. presents this thought-provoking examination of the moral and psychological implications of human relationships in an increasingly technological age.