Should all info be available to everyone?

@Ragnarok08 is a play by Teater Vestland about cyber security, power, privacy and collaboration.

Inside the auditorium, telephones were taped to the back of each chair for the audience to use to help decide the plot of the play. During each dilemma, the phone lit up with a question and two choices. The dilemmas most often consisted of who the main character (Kim) should be with or trust. The first choice the audience made was to go with Jesper into the building.

@Ragnarok08 is an exciting play, and it was fun to be able to decide what happened on stage.

The action takes place in 2025. The play was about a 17-year-old girl (Emma) who pretends to be @ragnarok08 online. Emma has been chatting with an anonymous user on HackChat who pretended to be 17 years old and in the same high school as Emma. Emma quickly fell in love with this anonymous user and agreed to steal secret files from PST (Norwegian Police Security Service) from her mother's (Dina) computer.

We meet Kim while she's delivering pizza, it's the last delivery of the day and she's going to the industrial road. On the way, she almost runs into a girl who we learn later in the play is Emma. Kim, the pizza delivery boy, is told to help her make a choice for the safety and citizens of Norway. In Industriveien, Kim meets Dina and Jesper who help each other look for the missing Emma.

The stage has two backdrops; two black boxes that they use in different ways by moving and overturning them. It was impressive and inspiring to see so many different possibilities and uses of bricks to create different spaces. The bricks were used as elevators, doors, tables, walls and much more. Much of the action took place on a screen that filled the back wall. Every time the actors left the stage, the audience watched the screen. There, we got to see several different places that helped us to empathize more with the story.

In the end, Kim had to make the choice of who to give the files to, either PST or the hackers at CoF (Citizensofnowhere).

We in the audience were left wondering if we had made the right choice. We as a whole chose to give the files to CoF. All the choices we made had clear consequences for the characters and the plot.

The performance itself would have been exciting to watch several times with different choices. We thought a lot afterwards about what would have happened if we had chosen differently, what it would have meant for the play and the future in this fictional world.

We believe that all information should be easily accessible to all citizens, but not forced upon them. We want to be able to know what's going on around us and have the opportunity to express our own opinions with background information.

We'd like to see what happens next in the story, no matter who got the files (A Ragnarok08 part 2?). The ending was open, but felt unfinished. We, as the audience, were given the opportunity to interpret for ourselves what happened next, but we would also like to have the opportunity to see what the authors of this story thought about the future. The ending felt like when you have an exam and just have to find something to write to finish in time, a bit abrupt.

The actors were good and the lines seemed true to the character. Kim had a lot of humor while Emma was serious and wise. I (Gaia) would have liked to see more young people in the acting industry as teenagers, for me a young adult playing a teenager is not believable. There are a lot of talented young actors just waiting for a chance.