OK, it's actually called "First Person Shooter", it's from the mind of Aaron Loeb from Planet Moon Studios (the brilliant Armed & Dangerous / Giants: Citizen Kabuto / MDK), and it premieres tonight at the San Francisco Playhouse.
Here's the official summary of the play:
First Person Shooter takes us inside 'JetPack Games', a start-up video gameAaron Loeb was a video game reporter at the time of the Littleton, Colorado shootings:
company, where the hottest, most violent game on the market has brought instant
success to its twenty-something tech geniuses. Their celebration fizzles when
their game is blamed for a schoolyard shooting. As the young CEO of Jet Pack
deals with an impending lawsuit and the father of one of the victims, he must
confront whether he has any responsibilities in the world beyond his computer
screen.
"[Loeb] wanted to write a play about the people caught in the echo chamber of theKudos to Loeb for taking this on -- not necessarily for the content, but for taking what he knows into a new medium to explore something important. And for doing more than sensationalizing and cheapening single events (and extrapolating those single events to describe the "problem" / "solution").
debate. What must it be like for the people actually accused of making a game
that turns kids into killers? What about the parents of the victims? Their
children are dead and the news is jam packed with talk of something so trivial
as videogames!"
If you're in SF and get a chance to see it, let me know how it is. I'll try to get down there before the run ends June 9.
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