{"id":23395,"date":"2026-06-06T12:37:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/are-you-watching-review-unflinching-fury-filled-interrogation-of-the-vile-side-of-the-web\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T12:37:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T10:37:35","slug":"are-you-watching-review-unflinching-fury-filled-interrogation-of-the-vile-side-of-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/06\/are-you-watching-review-unflinching-fury-filled-interrogation-of-the-vile-side-of-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"Are You Watching? review \u2013 unflinching, fury-filled interrogation of the vile side of the web"},"content":{"rendered":"

Royal Court, London<\/strong>
Teenage girls discuss the horrors they have seen via their phones as Georgie Dettmer\u2019s reckoning with internet culture is brutally realised by director Jess Edwards<\/p>\n

Georgie Dettmer\u2019s gaze is unflinching. Nothing is held back in Are You Watching?, her fury-filled interrogation of our twisted relationship with sex and violence, and the emotional distance we hide behind when we watch them both through a screen. This bluntness can feel unsubtle, but it\u2019s also admirably unafraid.<\/p>\n

Two teenage girls (Kosar Ali and Abby McCann) perch on a bunk bed, talking about the worst things they\u2019ve ever seen. Across the rest of the traverse stage, those stories are smashed into sharp, rapid-fire scenes, flicked between as if scrolled through on a phone. Under Jess Edwards\u2019 direction, the depths of the internet are hurled across the stage (by an excellent multi-rolling cast including Lucy McCormick and Maimuna Memon), while the two girls watch from the safety of their duvets.<\/p>\n

Continue reading…<\/a>
\nRoyal Court, London Teenage girls discuss the horrors they have seen via their phones as Georgie Dettmer\u2019s reckoning with internet culture is brutally realised by director Jess Edwards
\nGeorgie Dettmer\u2019s gaze is unflinching. Nothing is held back in Are You Watching?, her fury-filled interrogation of our twisted relationship with sex and violence, and the emotional distance we hide behind when we watch them both through a screen. This bluntness can feel unsubtle, but it\u2019s also admirably unafraid.
\nTwo teenage girls (Kosar Ali and Abby McCann) perch on a bunk bed, talking about the worst things they\u2019ve ever seen. Across the rest of the traverse stage, those stories are smashed into sharp, rapid-fire scenes, flicked between as if scrolled through on a phone. Under Jess Edwards\u2019 direction, the depths of the internet are hurled across the stage (by an excellent multi-rolling cast including Lucy McCormick and Maimuna Memon), while the two girls watch from the safety of their duvets. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Royal Court, London Teenage girls discuss the horrors they have seen via their phones as Georgie Dettmer\u2019s reckoning with internet culture is brutally realised by director Jess Edwards Georgie Dettmer\u2019s gaze is unflinching. Nothing is held back in Are You Watching?, her fury-filled interrogation of our twisted relationship with sex and violence, and the emotional …<\/p>\n

Are You Watching? review \u2013 unflinching, fury-filled interrogation of the vile side of the web<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}