Blink: an unblinking look at the pitfalls of electronic romance
Blink by Phil Porter, A Plosive production Directed by Teri Loretto-Valentik
Back in another era, dramatist Harold Pinter used to contend that his often enigmatic plays were really about the breakdown of communications between human beings.
But that was well before the dawning of a new electronic age, before the advent of smartphones and digital cameras, Twitter and Facebook.
A play like Phil Porter’s Blink wouldn’t have been conceivable a couple of decades ago. Its vision of the way people choose to communicate would have seemed the stuff of science fiction. Yet the piece now on view in an excellent production at the Gladstone is scarcely a celebration of the social media and the way in which it brings people closer together. As it reaches its gentle close, it reveals a sad and rueful twist in its tail. …
