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Last December news.Bitcoin.com reported on the theatrical version of people using the deep web in a play called the âSilk Road: How to Buy Drugs Online.â Since then the play got rave reviews after appearing at the world-famous Edinburgh Fringe and the Vault festival. Now due to the showâs popularity, the performance is hosting the production at the well-known theatre Londonâs Trafalgar Studios for a twenty-day residency. Â
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The Silk Road Theatre Production Written by Alex Oates Receives Rave Reviews
Just before the end of the phenomenal 2017 cryptocurrency run news.Bitcoin.com reported on a play that appeared in the UK called the âSilk Road: How to Buy Drugs Online.â The performance has been funded entirely in BTC when an anonymous person donated funds towards the production. The play, written by the well known English playwright Alex Oates, is about a 19-year old man named Bruce Blakemore who learns about the deep web and darknet markets. Moreover, the play is loosely based on the tales of the Dread Pirate Roberts (DPR) alongside interviews with real Silk Road vendors.
Since the play took place at the notorious Edinburgh Fringe and at the Vault Festival the production has received rave reviews.
âLike a hybrid of âSnatchâ and âStarter for Tenâ, this is both an adolescent adventure and a grotesque, criminal caper. Gritty and very well written by Old Vic New Voices playwright Alex Oates, âSilk Roadâ is the best thing to come from its namesake,â explained a Three Weeks review.
A Twenty Day Residency at Londonâs Trafalgar Studios
The shows at Edinburgh and the Vault Festival, and the great reviews have helped the cryptocurrency-funded performance achieve a residency at Londonâs famous Trafalgar Studios from August 7 through September 1, 2018. According to an interview with the regional publication, the Evening Standard, Oates details in an interview that cryptocurrencyâs trend within our culture is here to stay.
âBack in 2014, Bitcoin was a bit of a novelty so I couldnât be more thrilled that Silk Road (How to Buy Drugs Online), which was initially made possible through an anonymous donation of Bitcoin, is back with a run at Trafalgar Studios this summer,â Oates details.
It seems clear that Bitcoin is here to stay and it was a great honour to be the first play funded by cryptocurrency â It undoubtedly wonât be the last.
The West End London theatre Trafalgar Studios is a prestigious auditorium that once was called the âWhitehall Theatre,â and the Oates play is also directed by Dominic Shaw. No one knows how much funding the writer got from the anonymous donor, but reports detail that Oates has amassed a portfolio of âmultiple cryptocurrencies,â since 2014.
What do you think about the Silk Road play getting a residency stay at Londonâs Trafalgar Studios? Let us know what you think about this subject in the comment section below.
Images via the Silk Road: How to Buy Drugs Online Playbill, Evening Standard, and Pixabay.Â
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