New Video Game Play To Start In SF This Week
The issue of violent video games has been addressed on the news, in TV shows, in politics... so why not take the issue to the stage? A new play, "First Person Shooter", will be opening this weekend at the San Francisco Playhouse, and is set to take a long look at the responsibilities of video game developers in regards to events like Columbine, as well as how it is for game developers to be accused of turning children into monsters capable of killing their classmates:
First Person Shooter takes us inside ‘JetPack Games’, a start-up video game 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.
The play is written by Aaron Loeb, a former video game journalist who now works for Planet Moon (of Armed & Dangerous fame). Apparently the play doesn't take sides, one way or another, and strives to examine the issue in a way that most of us wouldn't expect a playwright to. Now that I know of the play's existence, I'm going to pick up some tickets tonight and will provide a review after this weekend.
SF Playhouse: The Power of Live Theatre [via GamePolitics]
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Posted to Miscellany on 1 May 2007
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