P3M5 Lunchtime Event at American Conservatory Theater

Stage readings of short plays originally commissioned as part of the Plurality of Privacy Project in Five-Minute Plays (P3M5) will be presented at the American Conservatory Theater (ACT) in San Francisco. Following the readings, guests will join in a conversation with representatives from Goethe-Institut and technology non-profit Mozilla centered around P3M5’s artistic approach to privacy and the Mozilla-sponsored project The Glass Room.  After the discussion, guests will be invited to peruse P3M5 videos and The Glass Room exhibit.

ACT was one of sixteen commissioning partners across the United States and Europe which selected a playwright for the P3M5 project. ACT will now present their commissioned piece, written by Philip Kan Gotanda, alongside other P3M5 plays in this lunchtime reading event.

The Glass Room is a project sponsored by Mozilla and described as a “pop-up shop with a twist: a space for reflection, experimentation and play on how we live our lives online.” The project, curated by the Tactical Technology Collective, originated in Berlin and ran in a retail space in New York in November and December 2016 to much acclaim.

P3M5 is a groundbreaking transatlantic theater project focused on the value of privacy. In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Washington, theaters across the US and Europe have commissioned playwrights to write five-minute plays exploring the central question, “What does privacy mean to you in the digital age?” The resulting plays, and subsequent short films adapted from them, are being presented in different formats by a network of theaters, festivals, and other organizations between January 2017 and June 2018.