What to say about a play that is a conspiracy?  In this post 1984 world how much that would have been judged as conspiracy theory has turned out to be truth?  My daughter got annoyed when she felt that Alexa was listening in on private conversations – there were too many incidences that she felt couldn’t be mere coincidences but some subtle plot to increase advertising revenues.  Theatrevibe is one of the few review sites which doesn’t charge and has no adverts for wrinkly skin “cures” or other irrelevant advertising but are you being monitored in some other way? 

We already know when we are photographed in many places, where our internet data is recorded, where our car number plates are stored and where our phone and textual conversations are monitored.  The debate exists between individual freedom and state security against terrorism.  So to Dave Davidson and “their” new play called provocatively, That Is Not Who I Am.

We start with the Playwright (Priyanga Burford) and her narrative about the Quilter family.  Noah Quilter (Jake Davies) meets Celeste Greer (Siena Kelly) first, on a blind date, after meeting on a national paper dating site.  They live together, get married and have a baby while under surveillance.  Noah starts to withdraw from their virtual lives and has followers who read about his fears.  The deep seated surveillance necessitates the degree of secrecy needed and why the true author of this play cannot be revealed beforehand.