Jennifer Haley’s The Nether is a play of ideas whose plot shifts between plateaus of existence in a near-future. The Internet has morphed into something called The Nether, in which more and more people develop parallel “realms” where they live alternate realities.
As characters spend more time in the Nether than they do in “real life,” the distinction between a fleshy reality and a persuasive virtual realm begins to blur, bringing along attendant moral issues about the substance of bodies and their effects.
