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[63] GLOW (Kaleid Theatre): Fringe review

Though we’re all connected 24/7 via cell phones, Facebook, email, texting, and blogging, there is a human disconnect in our current state of existence, in our need to validate ourselves through virtual friends, and in the anonymity of electronic posts and cyber-bullying in lieu of face-to-face interactions. An ensemble-devised exploration of the nature of our obsession with digital devices and social media, Kaleid Theatre’s GLOW employs movement, voice, sound, and imagery in an impactful piece on a bare stage that challenges our present direction and confronts the effects that this addictive technology has on the mass psychology of our culture and on the lives of its individual users. The four female creators/performers (Ashley Alter, Nina Giacobbe, Rachel O’Hanlon Rodriguez, and Samantha Rose Schwab) are of the Millennial Generation, so the concept keenly reflects their experiences growing up in the digital age of gadgetry junkies and their unedited over-sharing of personal events, attitudes, and emotions. more…