Estranged was a response to the book L’Étranger (if I’m remembering correctly, I’m not familiar with the source material). It is told from the viewpoint of a girl who seems entirely wrapped in a cocoon of technology and “together aloneness”. In it a number of life changing events happen to here, and she becomes more and more alienated while seemingly unaware of the effect her technology is having on here. It is so extreme that she posts on Facebook that her mother just died but she can’t remember the day.

The to me was the most coherent part of the story, after the part where she remotely “experiences” funerals, maybe as a surrogate to experiencing the emotions she should for her mother? It becomes increasingly difficult to interpret and leaves me feeling both confused and curious as to other’s interpretations of the work. I’m curious mostly if the story would have seemed significantly different if I had been watching from New Hampshire Rather than Maine. It seemed that the Umaine side got more of the digital aspect of the work while NH got a more live, theatrical performance, which I thick could have significantly altered the way I would have interpreted the story.

However. I don’t think there is any one correct interpretation for the story, I think part of the purpose, or at the least to me the greatest assets of the story was the individual interpretation of the story in a way acted as the eStrangement that the main girl felt during her “together alone-ness”.

In general I would say that eStranged let me feeling “empty” that is the confusion and I think multiple possible interpretations in conjunction with the telecommuting aspects left me in a sort of malaise which really brought home, I think, the idea of these personal digital bubbles.

That is, if that is what they were trying to say at all.