Tonight in San Francisco, Aaron Loeb, who works at Planet Moon Studios (Armed and Dangerous and Infected) premieres his play First Person Shooter at the San Francisco Playhouse. The guys over at GayGamer.net attended a preview last night and have a review up on their site. The story follows a successful fictional company known for making violent video games. Things go wrong at the company when they are blamed for a schoolyard shooting and the young CEO of the company has to deal with the lawsuit which follows and the parents of the victims.
The SF Playhouse says, "Aaron [Loeb], who now develops videogames, worked as a journalist covering the world of videogames at the time of Littleton, Colorado shootings and 'wanted to write a play about the people caught in the echo chamber of the debate. What must it be like for the people actually accused of making a game that turns kids into killers? What about the parents of the victims? Their children are dead and the news is jam packed with talk of something so trivial as videogames!'"
The play premieres to the public tonight and runs until June 9 at the San Francisco Playhouse. Ticket information is available at the playhouse's website. If you live in the San Francisco area go check it out and let us know what you think. Hopefully after the play's run they'll make a three camera video of it. Sure, it kinda defeats the purpose of seeing it live, but not everyone that wants to see it can make it out to San Fran and it sounds like a good play.
Reader Comments (6)
Posted: May 5th 2007 2:22PM hvnlysoldr said
Who would want to play the attorney at lawl?
Posted: May 5th 2007 3:01PM (Unverified) said
I wonder if there is a character called Jaques Tomlinson in it?
Posted: May 5th 2007 3:30PM AbsoluteZero said
@2 I see what you did there
Posted: May 5th 2007 6:03PM (Unverified) said
blatantly obvious, anyone?
Posted: May 6th 2007 1:38AM (Unverified) said
This is hardly art IMO. It's simply his effort to sell tickets off of people's mixed emotions on these issues. Stupid.
Posted: May 6th 2007 5:05PM (Unverified) said
"This is hardly art IMO. It's simply his effort to sell tickets off of people's mixed emotions on these issues. Stupid."
Why you are absolutely right. It's completely unreasonable to actually see the other side of this arguement. You know, the side that actually has to defend themselves against these allegations. And for a while there, they actually thought there could be truth to it.
But you're right. It's just a cheap attempt to open up debate from a previously overlooked perspective. I mean, who wants to hear from the developers side of things when we have all these other angles very well covered?
Gamers: Lil' Billy Sunovabitch may not be a developer, but he plays the games, right? So he's the only side opposed to the blame game that's worth mentioning.
Liberal Fucks: Pompous windbags who only seem to take this issue because the ultra right is showing concern. And hey, if they can scrape away each and every corner of freedom in expression, they'd be one step closer to their bland society of tomorrow. Where everyone thinks, looks, drinks, and talks the same.
Ultra Rights: You can usually thump in the bible thumpers and soccer moms with these. One nation, under god, and all those damn sand monkeys are ruining this nation, when they aren't blowing up buildings or driving taxi cabs. This is the ultra vocal crowd, the ones completely offended to anything they don't agree with. And, incidently, these are the same group which will scream "liberal" like an insult while doing everything in their power to remove things they don't agree with. It's amazing that the ultra right and liberals both exist on the same coin with the same agendas and hate each other so much. Both are trying their damndest to erode away our freedoms.
Corpse Rapers: This is our favorite Attorney at Lawl. Or anyone else, for that matter. Who uses tragedies to push agendas.
Why you are absolutely right. It's completely unreasonable to actually see the other side of this arguement. You know, the side that actually has to defend themselves against these allegations. And for a while there, they actually thought there could be truth to it.
But you're right. It's just a cheap attempt to open up debate from a previously overlooked perspective. I mean, who wants to hear from the developers side of things when we have all these other angles very well covered?
Gamers: Lil' Billy Sunovabitch may not be a developer, but he plays the games, right? So he's the only side opposed to the blame game that's worth mentioning.
Liberal Fucks: Pompous windbags who only seem to take this issue because the ultra right is showing concern. And hey, if they can scrape away each and every corner of freedom in expression, they'd be one step closer to their bland society of tomorrow. Where everyone thinks, looks, drinks, and talks the same.
Ultra Rights: You can usually thump in the bible thumpers and soccer moms with these. One nation, under god, and all those damn sand monkeys are ruining this nation, when they aren't blowing up buildings or driving taxi cabs. This is the ultra vocal crowd, the ones completely offended to anything they don't agree with. And, incidently, these are the same group which will scream "liberal" like an insult while doing everything in their power to remove things they don't agree with. It's amazing that the ultra right and liberals both exist on the same coin with the same agendas and hate each other so much. Both are trying their damndest to erode away our freedoms.
Corpse Rapers: This is our favorite Attorney at Lawl. Or anyone else, for that matter. Who uses tragedies to push agendas.
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