No One Sees the Video

Synopsis

Contemporary Britain

Liz stands on a bustling street corner, her shopping bags heavy with the weight of a life unraveling. When Karen, a market researcher with a clipboard and a desperate smile, approaches, Liz finds herself reluctantly drawn into a world where every opinion is valuable and every preference is catalogued. As Liz’s personal life crumbles around her, she’s seduced by the promise of purpose offered by Colin, a charismatic executive who sees in her the potential to shape desires she doesn’t even know she has.

Crimp’s razor-sharp satire slices through the glossy veneer of consumer culture, exposing the raw nerves beneath. Through a series of increasingly unsettling interviews and encounters, we’re plunged into a world where intimacy is commodified and identity is reduced to demographic data. The play pulses with a frenetic energy, jumping between rapid-fire dialogue and moments of disarming vulnerability. As Liz transforms from subject to manipulator, we’re forced to confront our own complicity in a system that reduces human experience to marketable soundbites. With each probing question and carefully crafted “concept,” Crimp peels back layers of authenticity and exploitation, revealing the hollowness at the heart of a society obsessed with selling us versions of ourselves we never knew we wanted.