One bad click deserves another, at least in this War of Attrition, an Easter Rising/Wikileaks mash up. Fought on the ground and in the ether, no one is safe, particularly in a city the size of Dublin, where you could quite plausibly do enough old fashioned stalking to supplement the cyber variety, to great success.
 
Made a mockery by a YouTube video that went viral, Daisy (Roseanna Purcell) loses her job as a chugger — soz, face-to-face fundraiser — and with the help of homeless puppeteer Chris (John Morton), tracks down the anonymous uploader, Alan (John Doran). What started as blowback results, through propinquity, loneliness, and drugs, in friendship — or so they think. With accusations of psychosis thrown around like so many pop-up windows, we don’t find out who the real madman is until it’s very late in the game, almost too late, as the loose ends need tying up sharpish, and the rush takes away from what had been sound storytelling.
 
The bang-on zeitgeistsy script is backed up excellent use of live technology, and a completely believable spiralling chain of events. The show is also funny, which is superbly germane: sure, don’t we all go to t’internet to get our LOLs? It loses its impulsion when it wanders into real time episodic narrative — not so much that you’d hit ‘close tab’, but enough to feel bummed that it didn’t solidly hit the mark.

Star rating: ★★★★