'When I Come To My Senses, I'm Alive!'

I've written a new science fiction play which is premiering this Friday at Annex Theatre in Seattle. If you'll be in Seattle over the next month, stop by and check out the show!

When I Come To My Senses, I'm Alive! tells the story of a technological provocateur, Annique, who invents a method for capturing emotions as digital information, as part of a project to "chart the emotional genome." She develops a cult following of fans who download her very addictive "emoticlips" - each delivered with cryptic, poetic file names like "the surprise of an unfamiliar memory" - and play them back in hobby-built receiver helmets. The experience is not full blown virtual reality; instead, emotional responses & sensations are triggered, and each fan experiences something unique. In fact, her fans string together complex playlists of Annique's "emoticlips" to generate emotional experiences that become quite deeper and more intense than Annique originally experienced herself. A seedy television executive tries to coopt her technology to syndicate the emotions of TV stars, hiring an elite P.I. to figure out what Annique's weaknesses are when she refuses to sell out... but in the meantime, publishing digital versions of Annique's emotions to the internet has unexpected consequences amongst the botnets of the world.

The show opens April 23rd and runs Fridays & Saturdays through May 22. Here's our video trailer:

Hope to see you there!