Welcome to the Digital Desert

Wake up, Bobbi. We know your story. We know how you were taken from the desert. We know that your seemingly legitimate online activity of selling off-market vintage lasagna recipes is merely a front for your illicit dealings with the notorious cyberterrorist Zhuangzi. We won’t let you have the lasagna, Bobbi. And we’re cutting off your podcasts until you comply. Welcome to the Digital Desert. Bobbi Billions is a nobody, just like us. Bobbi just wants a little cash, to stream some dopamine, and to take the edge off the constant anxiety. But there’s a voice inside him: an ancient voice, perhaps from a relative, a father, a god, or some inner child longing only for the fading memory of that delicious lasagna recipe their daddo used to make. Created by b-boy Charles Gao, Welcome to the Digital Desert is an absurd play blending breaking and theatre, poetry and movement. Behind Charles Gao’s sense of the strange and the absurd lies a deep desire for a better future for all. Society crumbles; the system cannot hold. Break open the cult of consumerism: revolt! Save Bobbi, and return us to the lasagna!