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The Cyber Zone explores relationships in the computer age

In parodying Rod Serling’s “Twilight Zone” TV series, The Cyber Zone offers an eclectic assortment of plays and skits about the online age, with characters ranging from a cyberstalker to an Internet dominatrix to a computer that sings the blues. Writer/director Deb Calabria, who penned the short plays “Cyberholics Anonymous,” “Don’t Chat With Strangers” and “Cyber Cafe,” originated The Cyber Zone from a free weekly writer’s workshop to give inexperienced playwrights the chance to get a short play produced.

Promising some of the mature language and situations that characterize the Net’s darker corners and chat rooms, The Cyber Zone also includes the work of such contributors as Kim Brown, Kerry Stone, David Bliss, Shauna Stubbs and Christa Kremindal.

The Cyber Zone plays July 27-Aug. 5 at Funny... That Way! Theatre Company, Studio B, 731 Highland Ave., with performances at 8 p.m. Thurs.-Sat. $6-$8. Call 404-893-3344.