AUDIO: PRIVACY's Rachel Dratch and Reg Rodgers Talk About Our Complicated Relationship With Technology

By: Jul. 21, 2016
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Audience members are asked to keep their cell phones on during Privacy, a cleverly done half-play, half-public service announcement, co-created by author James Graham and director Josie Rourke, that just opened at The Public Theater, by way of London's Donmar Warehouse.

While the play stars Daniel Radcliffe as an introverted writer discovering how much of his life is made public through the conveniences of cell phones and Internet technology, Rachel Dratch and Reg Rogers are two members of the talented ensemble that each play an assortment of roles based on real-life high profile politicians, journalists and technologists who have all contributed exclusively to the show.

The pair talk with WNYC's Manoush Zomorodi about the play's issue of sacrificing privacy for security, and the unique experience of interacting with Audience members in a production where every performance takes unpredictable turns.

The Public Theater and Donmar Warehouse's production of Privacy, co-created by James Graham and Josie Rourke, written by James Graham and directed by Josie Rourke opened on July 18th and runs through Sunday, August 14,

Privacy is a timely exploration of the digital age that features De'Adre Aziza, Raffi Barsoumian, Michael Countryman, Rachel Dratch, Daniel Radcliffe, and Reg Rogers.

Inspired by the revelations of Edward Snowden, Privacy explores our complicated relationship with technology and data through the funny and heart-breaking travails of a lonely guy (Daniel Radcliffe), who arrives in the city to figure out how to like, tag, and share his life without giving it all away. The play uncovers what our technological choices reveal about who we are, what we want and who's keeping track of it all. This provocative theatrical event will ask audiences to charge their phones, leave them ON during the performance and to embark on a fascinating dive online and into a new reality where we're all connected...for better or worse.



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