Privacy
There's a lot of publicity surrounding the Public's production of Privacy , a modern morality tale created by James Graham and Josie Rourke . (This is a co-production with London's Donmar Warehouse.) Much attention has been paid to Privacy 's leading man, Daniel Radcliffe , someone who's grown up in the public eye; to the fact that audience members will be encouraged to use their phones during the performance; and to the taped appearance by Edward Snowden . Publicity is great, but the play's the thing, and this play, written by Graham and directed by Rourke, is more like a theatricalized TED talk than a play. Plot or character motivation is used as a device to explore and demonstrate how little privacy we have. (One thing that connects this to theatre history is social media being a stand in, of sorts, for the Greek chorus, or the townspeople who are constantly on stage in Our Town —someone is always watching and commenting.) Radcliffe ( The Cripple of I...