Unboxing
CYD Productions
Chicago, Il.
A Play About The Crazy Hypercapitalist lives of Youtubers
UNBOXING follows the lives of a small collective of YouTubers from 2011 to 2021. Presented in a collage of Youtube Uploads, FaceTime Conversations, and LiveStreams, the members of the Viral Squad do their best to make art and survive in a time of increasing political polarization and looming algorithmic inspired-radicalization. A play about the intersection of online content makers and politics.
Category: Play
Tags: YouTube, Radicalization, Collectivism
Rating: R (17+)
Note: Unboxing was submitted with a second act, making for a two hour experience. Only act 1 is officially part of the Fringe, but at the end of the video there is a link to act 2, if you’d like to see the rest of the show.
Company Bio
CYD is a multi-faceted collective creating plays, audio dramas, and films exploring themes of political radicalization, masculinity in the time of late-capitalism, and the fine line between Noel Coward-esque farcical comedy and Cronenberg-inspired body horror.
Past Fringe Credits
First time Fringer!