Time!

I was absolutely intrigued by the comparison of the everyday use of Twitter to theatre.  It was very interesting to imagine how much of a performance it is to use Twitter.  The single tweet plays seemed less like theatre to me and applied less to this idea of real time.  However the really long plays and the Twitter plays that took place over weeks definitely brought some sense of reality that a “normal” play wouldn’t quite be able to capture.  I found that especially the Twitter plays where different characters were tweeting different thing almost as if they were using Twitter were an excellent illusion of reality.  It would be very easy for these characters to turn into some of the “friends” that a person follows on Twitter.  It works well because Twitter is already set up as a form of performers and audience (even though those lines are a bit blurred and the audience and performers are constantly trading places).

I’m not sure how well it could work to take this idea of the Twitter plays to the next step, but I imagine a live performance of Twitter.  What I mean is using Twitter as a script.  I feel like it would actually end up turning into one of the durational plays though.  In order to create the reality of Twitter, characters’ conversations must take place over a drawn out period of time.  There also must be many different characters that sometimes interact with one another and sometimes do not.  I think that the inclusion of several random celebrities who don’t really interact with anyone else very much would be fun.  Then it would be performed over several hours to mimic somebody reading through a Twitter feed.  People would be welcome to come and go as they please, similar to the longer plays.  Perhaps there could be some audience interaction as well such as posting tweets that would appear in the play.