For the first virtual performance in its history, South Philly theatre company Theatre Exile will present “D-Pad,” a production following a game developer’s journey in the independent gaming scene.

Actress Ang Bey plays Alex, a young woman in the process of creating a game in a sometimes misogynistic gaming culture that eventually causes her to isolate herself from friends and family. The theme of isolation are timely during a year in which society has been separated by a public health crisis.

Playwright Jeremy Gable originally created the idea for “D-Pad” in 2014. Given its subject matter of online gaming, Gable said the surge in gaming during the pandemic gave its story an added significance.

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