The ambitious new musical, which originally streamed from Southwark Playhouse during lockdown, has now transferred for a limited West End run at the Vaudeville Theatre. We were intrigued when we heard about new musical Public Domain, which bills itself as “like Black Mirror but real and set to music”.
The verbatim show, written and performed by Francesca Forristal and Jordan Paul Clarke, is told entirely through the real-life words of vloggers, influencers, ex-Facebook employees, and Mark Zuckerberg and his family, interspersed with the testimony of everyday social media users.
It certainly sounds like an interesting premise for a new show. There isn’t really much of a plot – it’s more presented as a series of snapshots of different events