It can be difficult for many of us to grasp exactly how violent extremism seduces ostracised young people, but it’s something we desperately need to understand. British writer and performer Javaad Alipoor seeks to uncover the truth about how extremists are attracting new recruits online, and the ways in which they’re exploiting technology to find tech savvy young people in dark corners of the internet.
So it makes sense that this show, which combines performance lecture with film and storytelling, uses technology to speak to its audience: you use your mobile phone throughout the show and an instant messaging system to respond to the performance and interact with it.
In a four-star review of the show’s Edinburgh Fringe season, Time Out London said: “it’s undeniably eye-opening, inventive stuff, a window into the frightening virtual world the resentment-fuelled young men whose anger has so terrifyingly spilled over into Syria and the US of late.”