By Sumit Paul-Choudhury The play relies on suggestion, not shock (Image: Johan Persson)"Who are we when we live without consequences?" That's the question a detective poses angrily to the owner of the Hideaway, a virtual clubhouse catering to paedophiles in The Nether, Jennifer Haley's charged, compact play about online morality. The "Nether" of the title, a fully immersive relative of today's internet, lets them indulge in fantasies of molestation and murder – without ever meeting an actual child.To Morris, the detective, the corruption of the Hideaway's clientele is real, even if their victims are not. Yet for all the pent-up fury with which she argues her refrigeration case, she cannot induce Poppa, the Hideaway's charismatic proprietor, to admit he has done anything wrong.Indeed, he insists that in his closely regulated realm – an idyllic and stunningly realised colonial manse – customers can expend their urges entirely...
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