The stage adaption of The Globe and Mail’s Josh O’Kane’s book about the Sidewalk Labs saga gleefully highlights the absurdities unearthed about what went wrong with the project
“Don’t be evil.” Those words glare briefly from the screens above the stage in Michael Healey’s new play– only to be swiftly crossed out. You’ll recall that was once Google’s corporate slogan. The irony is worth remembering right now, as the tech giant faces a massive anti-trust lawsuit in the U.S. while, in Canada, it continues its punitive protest against the federal Online News Act rather than compensate Canadian media outlets.
. And while the show’s surtitles keep jokingly assuring us that what we’re watching is fiction, Healey sticks closely to the book in both fact and spirit, gleefully highlighting the inherent absurdities that O’Kane unearthed in his pursuit of what went wrong with the once-ballyhooed project. The obvious villain would be Sidewalk Labs CEO Dan Doctoroff , the classic white alpha male who talks over everybody and gets his way by shouting and banging tables. Only he doesn’t always get his way. And despite his hotshot credentials and massive ego – a New York developer and former deputy mayor under the Bloomberg administration, he’s continually plugging his autobiography – we begin to at least understand his frustrations.
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