In the distant past of 2019, when Facebook was just called Facebook and hand sanitizer was not a valuable resource, playwright Hannah Khalil wrote a story about a dystopian future in which human interaction only happens through a computer screen. .

Khalil called the play metaverseand since its inception, it has only grown more relevant and, sadly, prescient, as evidenced by the new Corrib Theater production (directed by Holly Griffith).

Our story takes place in an unnamed future society, where a mother (Wynee Hu) is hard at work on a mysterious project for a tech giant, and her only respite is weekly VR calls with her daughter (Annabel Cantor). However, something else may be going on at the company, something sinister that the mother’s co-worker (Jerilyn Armstrong) may or may not…