{"product_id":"the-nether","title":"The Nether","description":"Review\n\nThis is mind-bending, it's ingenious and it's ethically challenging... A knotty, important and thought-provoking disputation about virtual reality and moral policing... Structured quite brilliantly, like a hall of mirrors. -- Kate Bassett ― The Times\n\n[A] deeply disturbing and very responsibly provocative play... Shaped, poetic restraint and eloquent economy. ― Independent\n\nDisturbing... and dramatically satisfying... The internet has undoubtedly changed us as a species, and The Nether asks big questions about how we go forward. -- Andrzej Lukowski ― Time Out\n\nA thought-provoking, deeply disconcerting success. It is a piece that taps into one of the most urgent and disturbing issues of our times... This is a haunting and highly original modern fairy-tale that combines creepy enchantment with a whiff of sulphur.\" -- Charles Spencer ― Daily Telegraph\n\nThis is a compelling, profoundly disturbing 80 minutes of theatre... At the play's end, the world - both real and virtual - simply doesn't look quite the same. -- Laura Barnett ― Observer\n\nHaley's play at first challenges us to think the unthinkable, then almost seduces us into it. It is the very best kind of uncomfortable viewing. -- Ian Shuttleworth ― Financial Times\n\nProduct Description\n\nI've read the studies. No one has been able to draw a conclusive correlation between virtual behaviour and behaviour in-world.\n\nThe Nether is a virtual wonderland that provides total sensory immersion. Just log in, choose an identity and indulge your every desire. But when a young detective uncovers a disturbing brand of entertainment, she triggers an interrogation into the darkest corners of the imagination.\n\nWinner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, The Nether is both a serpentine crime drama and haunting sci-fi thriller that explores the consequences of living out our private dreams.\n\nJennifer Haley's The Nether received its UK premiere in July 2014 at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in a co-production with Headlong.\n\nBook Description\n\nThe Nether by Jennifer Haley, winner of the 2012 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, is both a serpentine crime drama and a haunting sci-fi thriller.","brand":"Faber \u0026 Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40597285863509,"sku":"9780571315802N","price":11.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2481\/5790\/files\/baa9f4b5-529c-4bb8-b231-87991d5df95d.jpg?v=1682500536","url":"https:\/\/smeikalbooks.co.uk\/en-us\/products\/the-nether","provider":"smeikalbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}