How many dangers are there in the chat rooms on the Internet? Hindi Brooks has written a funny [play] about the dangers of exaggerating the truth in chat rooms."— The Los Angeles Times. Shy nerds looking for companionship—maybe even love—are hilarious. "Each is desperately insecure, beginning their virtual relationship with innocent falsehoods that soon stretch to become outright lies."—The Los Angeles Register.

What happens when they finally meet? You'll have to read or see the play to find out. Developed at the Playwrights Group in Los Angeles, Computer Pals was first produced as part of "Fortyworks" at Theatre Forty in Beverly Hills. It was later a finalist in the Love Creek Off-Off Broadway Original Short Play Festival in New York. "The Festival audience went mad," Miss Brooks said. Sharon Fallon, who ran the program, said they'd never had such positive response in the 23 years they've been doing the Festival.

Hindi Brooks is a prolific playwright whose plays have been produced throughout the United States and internationally. She teaches playwriting at UCLA.

One-act; set, computer rooms and a park; present time; modern clothes.

Other titles by Brooks: Captain Noah, Exeunt O'Brien and Krasnov (An Evening with Eve), Making It, A Minor Incident, Wising Up

See also: Plays About Personal Relationships