The Nutshell

5 Men, 2 Women, 120 Minutes
Dark Comedy
Available for further development and world premiere

After his girlfriend suddenly leaves him, Douglas, an agoraphobic software designer brings a female Horatio hologram from his virtual You are Hamlet game to life with the help of an A.I. computer virus and he begins to question everything that he believes is true. A digital love story set against the green screen of a new world populated by animatronic, aphasiac teddy bears, computer animated avatar characters, motion-capture suits, and video Web bloggers.

Read about the teddy bear and Douglas's virus, LIZA.

• 2004 C.A.F.E. AND Black Box Theatre Company (staged reading)
• 2005 The Magic Theatre and the Commonwealth Club (staged reading)

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