'M ACCESSIBLE!! LIVE IN A HOUSE!I HAVE A CHILD!I AM HUMAN!THE LIVING HIEROPHANT! THE COVER OF MS.AND ESQUIRE THE SAME MONTH! AND IT ISNNT A CONTRADTION!I MUST BE.....WAIT FOR IT....A FEMMENIST(Thanx NOAM) .... -- From the online postings of Courtney Love "Reading through the postings Courtney exchanged with the public, I realized how theatrical the Internet can be," said Elyse Singer, director of Love in the Void, a 75-minute performance piece based entirely on Courtney Love's Internet missives. Love, the Generation X rock diva, widow of Nirvana's Kurt Cobain, and mother, began posting her tormented musings to USENET newsgroups in 1994. Not long after an imposter posing as Love began bashing Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl online, Love's fervent musings ceased, but not before she had launched more than 50 rambling entries onto the wires. With a stack of downloaded postings (including fans' queries and quips to Love) and permission to use Hole's music, Elyse and Carolyn Baeumler, an actress and Love look-alike, wove together a powerful, critically acclaimed off-off-Broadway production that raised pointed questions about communication, celebrity, and identity in the age of the Internet. "On the Net, protected by a mask of anonymity," the director says, "people can be quite dramatic because their identity is hidden. They create characters and play roles just like in a theater space, but their stage is cyberspace."
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