Talk:The Nether
 | This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects: | ||||||||||
| |||||||||||
Reception
[edit]I don't feel that the reception section is neutral. It sounds like cherry-picked advertising you'd find on a booklet rather than a comprehensive overview of critics in an encyclopedia. For example, the LA Weekly source includes statements like: "does not ultimately offer enough of an affecting emotional ride", "Perhaps more finely detailed backstories would help", "Some smaller factors also detract", "Yet perhaps its version of love ... s one too many degrees removed from even our current technologically mediated incarnation." Yet if you only saw the sentence in the reception saying "you won’t want to leave the Hideaway", you wouldn't think they had any criticisms at all. The sentences chosen also sound too much like advertisements, even if they were said by critics due to their cherry-picked nature. Opencooper (talk) 04:15, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
I've moved the section here until it can be improved:
---
The Telegraph gave the play 4 out of 5 stars, describing it as 'haunting...a gripping and deeply disconcerting look at the Internet'.[1] According to Time Out, which awarded it the same score, The Nether is a 'relentlessly gripping, entertaining play.[2]
"Like the hard-core radical voyeurs in Jennifer Haley’s terrific sci-fi play ‘The Nether,’ you won’t want to leave the Hideaway.”[3]
"Big-budget theater rarely has this kind of hip factor and hardly ever addresses issues in cutting-edge technology with as much sophistication as we see here.”[4]
"As a parable for where we’re headed on that big old highway in the digital sky, The Nether exerts a viselike grip, while taking you down avenues of thought you probably haven’t traveled yet." - The New York Times,[5]
"Deeply disturbing and provocative" - The Independent,[6]
"Haley has taken as her subject several of the most fearsome betes noires of our age: paedophilia, the internet’s sinister imaginative power, and the symbiotic relationship between the two." - The Guardian,[7]
"[Haley] pushes audiences right to the edge, making them question the horror they’re seeing and challenging them to believe it could be true." - San Francisco Chronicle,[8]
References
- ^ Spencer, Charles (25 July 2014). "The Telegraph". Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ^ Bowie-Sell, Daisy (24 February 2015). "Time Out". Retrieved 17 April 2015.
- ^ Pincus-Roth, Zachary. "The Nether, Jennifer Haley's New Play at Kirk Douglas Theatre, Takes Place in a Virtual Reality of Sexual Fantasies". LA Weekly. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ Hofler, Robert. "Legit Review: 'The Nether'". Variety. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ Brantly, Ben. "Review: Jennifer Haley's 'The Nether' Explores the Dark Side of the Web". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ Taylor, Paul. "The Nether, Royal Court Theatre, review: Deeply disturbing and provocative". The independent. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ Barnett, Laura. "The Nether review – dark desires in a nightmare world". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 June 2015.
- ^ Jones, Chad. "Provocative, brilliant 'Nether' world at S.F. Playhouse". SFGate. Retrieved 10 February 2016.