What happens to your digital life after your death? If there was a magic button, would you choose to delete your online history?
User Not Found is about our digital identities after we die. You enter a café and receive a set of headphones and a smartphone. Several tables away, a man is grappling in real time with something deeply private. Gradually, you bear digital witness via smartphone and an intimate, funny live performance to a stranger’s profound experience.
This site-specific play from Dante or Die immerses you in both the private and public, provoking surprising considerations of our online afterlife and shifting notions of connection and community.
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Chris Goode is a writer and maker working in theatre and live performance. He has amassed a significant body of unpredictable work in diverse formats: from large-scale theatre-based projects such as Men in the Cities (Royal Court & Traverse), Monkey Bars (Traverse/ Unicorn), The Consolations (1999) and Speed Death of the Radiant Child (2007), to intimate solo storytelling pieces like Kiss of Life (2002) and We Must Perform A Quirkafleeg! (2006),one of a series of performances made specifically for audiences’ own homes; and from script-based pieces like King Pelican (2009, nominated for a TMA Award for Best New Play) to more obviously experimental works such as Hey Mathew (2008), and Glass House (2009), a performance installation for Deloitte Ignite at the Royal Opera House. In 2009 he published The History of Airports: Selected texts for performance 1995-2009, which was launched during a retrospective season hosted jointly by Artsadmin and Camden People’s Theatre. He is increasingly noted for his reading/performances of experimental work by earlier poets and artists, including Kurt Schwitters, Christopher Knowles, Samuel Beckett and Michael Basinski. He is an Associate Researcher at Rose Bruford College and a member of the Advisory Panel to the Archive of the Now.
Daphna is Co-Artistic Director of Dante or Die Theatre. She has directed all of the company’s work to date.
She is also Artistic Director of Peut-Être Theatre, where she creates unforgettable early theatrical experiences. Her directorial work with Peut-Être includes Tidy Up, Shh…Bang!, The Tin Soldier, Dare to Sea, Draw me a Bird, The Bug and the Butterfly & This is a That. In 2017 she received a prestigious Action for Children’s Arts Members Award for her prolific theatre productions which now tour the world.
Her work has been presented and performed nationally and internationally at venues such as Almeida Theatre, Roundhouse, Royal Albert Hall, Brighton Festival, Southbank Centre, The Place, Royal Opera House, The Lowry, Barnsley Civic, The Arc Stockton, The Egg Bath, Polka Theare, National Theatre’s Watch This Space, Drama Centre Singapore, Ziguzajg Festival Malta, Israel Festival for Children in Israel.
Daphna & Terry have worked in in partnership with University of Reading for over ten years, including developing research projects in conjunction with Dante or Die productions. They have collaborated with academics & specialists from London School of Pharmacy and Imperical College London and worked as guest lecturers at a variety of universities such as Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Roehampton University & University of Salford.
