In the near future, a technology developer is tasked with replicating the sensation of the human touch in virtual reality, which is also the only means by which he can communicate with his teenage daughter in an eerily restricted society. As your company’s bureaucracy becomes more opaque and genuine human contact more elusive, your paranoia grows, or are your fears justified?

For our fall show, Corrib Theater presents Irish-Palestinian playwright Hannah Khalil’s Metaverse, directed by our new Artistic Director, Holly Griffith. The play is set in the near future and explores the fragility of human connection in Virtual Reality as a technology developer struggles to communicate with her young daughter.

“Hannah Khalil wrote Metaverse a year before the Covid-19 pandemic when she was forced to…