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Teh Internet is Serious Business
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"Tim Price's play about two hackers is tumultuous, energetic and ultimately touching in its vision of a global network of young people dedicated to challenging the status quo." Guardian A sixteen-year-old London schoolboy and an eighteen-year-old recluse in Shetland meet online, pick a fight with the FBI and change the world forever. This brave and challenging play gets behind the code with the original Anonymous members, offering an anarchic retelling of the birth of hacktivism. Teh Internet is Serious Business is a fictional account of the true story of Anonymous and LulzSec, the collective swarm who took on the most powerful capitalist forces from their bedrooms. The play received its world premiere at the Royal Court, London, in September 2014. This new Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Hamish Pirie.
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Characters
Topiary/Jake Davis – Social media personality, 17
Tflow/Mustafa Al-Bassam – Hacker/coder, 15
Kayla/Ryan Ackroyd – Reverse engineer, 16/24
Sabu/Hector Monsegur – Root hacker, 20s
AVUnit – Anonymous hacker still at large
PwnSauce/Darren Martyn – Hacker, 19
Mum – Topiary’s Mum, 40
Emily Sinclair – Solicitor
Lucy O’Halloran – Solicitor
Pedobear – Loveably cuddly bear who is also a paedophile
Advice Dog – Friendly dog who gives horrific advice
Sad Storm Trooper – Depressed storm trooper from Star Wars universe
Grumpy Cat – A grumpy lolcat
Anxiety Cat – An anxious lolcat
Y U No Guy – Illustrated meme character who asks stupid questions
Socially Awkward Penguin – Illustrated meme character who is a socially awkward penguin
Condescending Willy Wonka – Condescending character from Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Mary Darcy – Fox Broadcasting employee
Jeff Nevin – Account manager for Fox
Tom Cruise – Film star and Scientologist, 50s
Piratebay – Website
Hollywood 1 & 2 – Entertainment industry
Ryan Cleary – Hacker, 18
Teacher – Schoolteacher in Mustafa’s school
FBI Officer – Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigations
Wingding – Louisa Anderson, social engineer/journalist, 30s
Tuxedo/Gregg Housh – Hacker, 20s
Aaron Barr – 40s
Queen’s College London – Website
PBS – Website
CIA – Website
SOCA – Website
Hollywood – Motion Picture Industry
Numerous Mourners
Number of Reporters
Anonymous – The hivemind
FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigations officer
Metropolitan Police Officer 1 – Police officer
Barrister 1
Barrister 2
Barrister 3
Solicitor 1 – Solicitor in crown court
Solicitor 2 – Solicitor in crown court
This is a fictional account inspired by a true story. Certain elements have been changed or altered for dramatic purposes. In some cases fictitious characters and incidents have been added to the plot, and the words are those imagined by the author. The play should not be understood as a factual account.
Notes for performance
This play should be performed with no screens.
The character Anonymous can be played by any number of people, in any number of ways. Anonymous is a hivemind, a collective of individuals. Anonymous should be on stage at all times, moving and thinking in a swarm. Who says which Anonymous lines should be discovered by the director and cast in rehearsals. For Operations Chanology and Payback an unexpected swell in numbers would help storytelling.
Dialogue
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– Indicates interruption by either a character or thought.
A space between lines represents the length of pause.
A line that ends with no full stop indicates no break between the character’s lines.
Bold dialogue indicates that this line should be spoken chorally. This means every single person on stage says this line at their own choosing, not in unison.
Act 1 Scene 1 – Charing Cross police station, July 28, 2011
Emily Sinclair Organised, systematic, criminal use of computers.
Eight hundred and ninety years in jail.
Met Police Officer 1 You have the rest your life ahead of you.
Help us track down your friends, and we’ll make sure you’re OK.
Emily Sinclair Org, organised, systematic, criminal use/of computers.
Eight hundred and ninety years in jail.
Met Police Officer 1 You have the rest your life ahead of you.
Help us track down your friends,/and we’ll make sure you’re OK.
Emily Sinclair Organised, organised,/organised organised systematic, criminal use of crim. Computers.
Met Police Officer 1 You have the rest/your life ahead of you.
Emily Sinclair Eight hundred/and ninety years eight hundred and ninety years eight hundred and ninety years in jail.
Met Police Officer 1 Help us track down your friends,/and we’ll mmmmmake sure you’re OK.
Emily Sinclair Rorganised, shistematic,/computers.
Met Police Officer 1 Nou have/the zdsd asasd life behind of you.
Emily Sinclair Eight eight eight eighty/and ninety years is is . . . is isssssssuh gay.
Met Police Officer 1 Help HELP! HELP! Us track k k ak ka kak ka/down your fffffAGAQ, FFwooooo k k k sewer yolly paid. HELP HELP PLELPE PALELEP chh acha acha kk kk down ffffff.
Emily Sinclair Organised, Rorganised, Schmorganised Orgasmised CRABIBLE COPUTZ ZEUSE.
Act 1 Scene 2 – Yell, Shetland, 2009
Mum Jake!
Jake. Jake? JAKE?
I’ve got you breakfast.
We’re out of bread.
I found some fruit. You should eat more fruit so . . .
Do you want to have this and then get out of bed?
Jake?
Jake Is she going to make us move out?
Mum Well,/ it’s
She’s within her rights. Your step-dad never got round to changing it and now he’s . . . it’s gone into her name.
There’s nothing we can do about it, it’s not right but it’s legal.
Jake He’s only been dead a month.
Act 1 Scene 3 – 2009 Queen’s College London website
Mustafa You do computer courses? Programming?
Queen’s College London We do a computer science BSC, you can do various combinations of that, with a year abroad or computer science with intelligent systems computer sc...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Introduction
- Foreword
- Teh Internet Is Serious Business
- Description
- Dedication
- Characters
- Copyright