About the Show

Part of BAM's Next Wave 2019 , this experimental work puts you in a café with a set of headphones and a smartphone and invites you to listen in on a nearby man's moving personal journey.

From the show:

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.

Critic Reviews (2)

"Coffee With a Side of Isolation in ‘User Not Found’: The Next Wave festival’s latest digital dive: A tale of grief staged in a Brooklyn cafe that the audience only pieces together by smartphone."
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"Keep those cell phones on; that's where 'User Not Found' largely unfolds. this inventive, pointed work of theater asks us to consider how the current public immersion in the digital world affects both life and death…ultimately, and surprisingly, becomes quite touching."
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