Isaac, I am

by Mary Steelsmith

Genre: Dark Comedy
Runtime: 110 - 120 mins
Cast: 3 females, 3 males, 2 any

Synopsis: Set in the world of seductive cyber chat rooms and instant messaging, Angela finds herself torn between a budding "real life" romance and a darker online relationship with a family seemingly bent on its own destruction. As she struggles to come to terms with her own feelings of insecurity and loneliness, she is simultaneously pulled deeper into a bizarre cyberspace by the perplexing and emotionally elusive family of Jacob, his younger sister Rachel and their obsessive father, Isaac. Eventually, Angela's dual worlds of reality and "virtu-ality" begin to blur together, until her computer life threatens to devour her whole.

Notes: Won the 2006 Helford Prize