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in the past that the narrative
tends to focus on the perpetra-
tor rather than the victim.

“Th at bugs the hell out of
me,” she said. In a way, she
said, it’s her way of stamp-
ing out the name of Haman, a
practice her daughters love.

Part of the impetus for stag-
ing the play now is the age of
Goldfinger’s daughters, she
said. Her older daughter is a stu-
dent at Temple, and has told her
mother about the types of par-
ties that sometimes take place.

On top of that, Goldfi nger said,
her daughter has had real-life
interactions planned through
the internet that turned out to
be quite diff erent than what she
expected. Th at disconnect, she
said, is at the center of her show.

“Th is is happening now, and
it’s huge, and if we don’t think
about the bigger picture and
the larger moral and ethical
questions it raises for our com-
munities, then were just gonna
get sideswiped,” she said.

“Because we’re not going to
stop the evolution of technol-
ogy, we’re not going to stop the
fact that there is violence in our
world, so I think it’s better that
we think about some of these
harder questions and how do
we answer them in balance
with someone’s full humanity
now, rather than waiting until
technology’s upon us.

Jacqueline Goldfi nger
“I want the world that she
Photo courtesy of Jacqueline Goldfi nger
grows up in to be better,”
Goldfi nger said.

Th e play isn’t all dark, she
stressed. Like some of the
science fi ction she looked to
for inspiration, Star Trek and
Black Mirror, for example, humor that give the story a
the dark drama of the story is fuller shaper.

populated by real people, who
“Th e experience we’re going
create moments of love and for is to be entertaining and
provocative,” Goldfi nger said. She little stone in their pocket.” ●
wants audiences to think about
the play every time they pick up jbernstein@jewishexponent.com;
their phone, for it to feel like “a 215-832-0740
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