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New play offers irreverent view of the Internet bubble era.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ For the trench workers of Silicon Valley's technology start-up world, the newly opened play "Ctrl+Alt+Delete" is worth seeing.
Some theater reviewers have been cool to the production, including San Jose Mercury News theatre critic Mark de la ViNa, who called it a self-conscious comedy with undeveloped characters. True, the play misfired in some key ways.
But the production succeeded in giving us an irreverent, outsider's view of the Internet bubble era and, judging by the laughs from the audience, it worked. "It was hilarious," said a colleague still chuckling at the jokes a week later _ many of which can't be printed in a family newspaper.
Many theater-goers, which likely included dot-commers, found it cathartic. It's possible that the humor didn't resonate for the some of the non-tech critics.
Indeed, what play _ whose plot is about the hubris that surrounds a ...
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