The festival features ​The Invisible Man on the (de)socializing effects of social networking. By making this choice, we hope to ask the audience deep questions about the social networking that exists in this play, and how social networking programs may have changed the situation. If the same storyline existed today, would an internet connection have changed the Invisible Man’s ‘visibility?’

      Our adaptation would address these question and more as we revisit Ralph Ellison’s famous novel. Throughout the Invisible Man’s life, he is excluded from his early social circles because of his skin tone, and later circles because of his individual thought. He has no community, which makes him “invisible.” In the context of our mini-festival we invite our audience to ponder whether the social networking programs of today would have made the Invisible Man visible, or if the social network would only magnify society’s tendency to isolate the people who don’t quite fit in.