The R-rated comedy features more of Shekar's signature "badass women characters," according to director Kimberly Ridgeway. Main character Evie is a gamer, a paid ghostwriter of love letters, and a college senior. A master of online role-playing, she's got way less "game" in real life. When she becomes closer to one of her clients, she must navigate love and sex in the real world without the benefit of real-world experience.
When the play opened in Atlanta in 2015, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution described it as a "fresh look at the strange social behaviors spawned by internet culture, where love and loneliness spar like the masters and the monsters of the universe." Earning Shekar the Kendeda Graduate Playwriting Award, the play has also been performed in New York, London and Edinburgh.
Colin Noble of downthetubes.net wrote, "this is a very funny, very thought provoking play and Warcraft is the backdrop. Anything could have been used, comic conventions, a night at a pub or even meeting at a gym, but none would have been able to explore the growing sense of living our lives split between digital and real-time selves."
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