Helen Razer
The Age
13 April 2004

Written by Steve Wheat, The Write One Dot Com is a play that explores intimacy in the digital age.

Sarah and Nathan are single adults looking for love. Seated in a café and confronted with a deluge of personal ads made flesh, these characters move from eagerness to desperation as their quest for a cuddle unfolds. A comic highlight occurs when Nathan pauses to advertise himself to the women in the audience. He offers his email address and recites the kind of remotely sunny description of himself that one might read online.

The topic of digitally marketing oneself is intriguing. Although this work delivers a few noteworthy observations and one or two good chuckles, it fails to genuinely engage with the weighty matters of love and alienation.