Annie Dorsen's digital theatre works reshape the possibilities of the encounter between humans and algorithmic forces. They both address and embody a world in which emotion, cognition, and narrative are increasingly controlled by algorithmic programs; and they invite the spectator to confront a nonhuman and algorithmic logic experientially, altered and pressurized by the terms of the theatre itself.

How can a play go viral? Following its 2009 premiere at London's Royal Court Theatre, Caryl Churchill's Seven Jewish Children —a politically provocative mini-drama staging the contested history of Israeli-Palestinian relations—did just that, spawning counter-plays and performative revisions that proliferated worldwide, in physical theatres and in the internet's intangible arena.