Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom

adapted by Matt Slaybaugh
from the novel by Cory Doctorow

May 26-12, 2012
@ Riffe Center
Studio Two Theater
77 South High St.
Columbus, OH 43215

Schedule

Thursday, April 26 @ 8pm + TALKBACK
Friday, April 27 @ 8pm + TALKBACK
Saturday, April 28 @ 8pm
Sunday, April 29 @ 2pm

Thursday, May 3 @ 8pm + TALKBACK
Friday, May 4 @ 8pm + TALKBACK
Saturday, May 5 @ 8pm
Sunday, May 6 @ 2pm

Thursday, May 10 @ 8pm + TALKBACK
Friday, May 11 @ 12pm
Friday, May 11 @ 8pm + TALKBACK
Saturday, May 12 @ 8pm

ABOUT THIS PLAY

The pace of the play throws lots of heavy themes out to the audience without necessarily explaining them right away. It doesn’t really need to – for me, it was the discussion that happened once the play was over that made the experience well worth it… Go see the play with friends and give yourselves something to discuss for hours!

– Anne Evans, Columbus Underground

Julius is more than a century old. He lives and dies and lives again in a happy dystopia, when everyone is online all the time, the only wealth is respect, and modern technology has eliminated work, boredom, and death. Only Cory Doctorow, renowned digital rights activist and coeditor of Boing Boing dot net, could see so clearly into the near-future. Luckily, he’s handed his visions down to us in the form of this outrageous and unpredictable playground of ideas.

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Recommended if You Like: Brazil, Twitter, George Orwell, Ender’s Game, Steve Jobs, V for Vendetta

“Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is the kind of science fiction novel that the band They Might Be Giants would have written if they’d OD’d on old cyberpunk novels and back issues of Theme Park Monthly. It’s cool, it’s hip, and it’s fun – but more importantly, it’s about something … The ideas are cool, the gadgets are neat, but, for all that the recipe is geeky, the final product is not. Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom is a sleek, tightly written book that, as the best science fiction should, engages the world.”

– Locus