DEFT TRICK: An undated handout photograph made available by The Donmar Warehouse theatre shows actor Joshua McGuire during the play 'Privacy' by James Graham in London. "Privacy," a new drama that has London buzzing, is probably the first play to open with a request that audience members keep their smartphones switched on, rather than off. It's certainly the first to have theatergoers snapping selfies midway through the first act. By the end, they may be tempted to throw those phones out the window.
LONDON: Privacy may well be the first play to open by asking the audience members to please leave their mobile phones turned on, and advising those few spectators who haven't got one to look at their neighbour's.
Those smartphones are among the stars of the new play by British playwright James Graham, which opened this week at London's intimate Donmar Warehouse. And like a late-generation phone, Privacy is crammed with an awful lot of features.
