Erin B Mee to Tweet Jeremy Gable Play, August 31
By: Sally Henry Fuller Aug. 23, 2015
Starting August 31, director Erin B. Mee will be "retweeting" Jeremy Gable's twitter play The 15th Line: A Play of Brief Communication. Twitter plays use twitter as their mode of delivery and engagement. While most twitter plays are one-liners or very short (usually comic) exchanges for two characters, The 15th Line is structured as a series of inter-related tweets (300+) between four characters over a period of eight weeks. Readers follow the four characters on twitter, and read the characters' tweets as and when they come up in their feed: the play mimics everyday twitter experiences, and the "dialogue" in this new form of closet drama is interspersed with unrelated tweets. Thus, fiction and reality intermingle in this new dramaturgical structure.
The 15th Line starts with news of a train crash: "Breaking News - Subway accident at 15th St. Station. 21 believed dead, 17 injured. Cause is not yet known." Tweets Patrick Hearson, a journalist at City Press. Seth Turnbull, a 20-year old, tweets: ""Just witnessed a subway accident. And I just ran away. I didn't know what to do. I've never been so scared." Dustin Kinder tweets: "I keep hearing about this accident. And Erica's still not answering her phone. She does this a lot. I wish she wouldn't right now." Angela Giannini tweets: "At the hospital. No major injuries. The doctors are calling me a miracle. A miracle would have been walking to school instead." Dustin tweets again: "She's still not answering the phone. I'm going to the hospital. I know you hate Twitter, Erica, but if you read this, call me." As the play develops, the four characters create relationships between one another as they come to terms with the death of loved ones, strangers, and their responses to their own near-death experiences. Each character tweets once or twice a day: there are usually 6-9 tweets per day over the two months.
If you would like to join in, please follow ALL FOUR characters on twitter, and start looking for their tweets on August 31:
Patrick Hearson: @patcitypress
Dustin Kinder: @dustkinder
Angela Giannini: @angiannini94
Seth Turnbull: @sethturnbull
General news and info will come from Erin B. Mee's personal twitter account: @erinbmee1
For further information:
Co-Artistic DirectorThis Is Not A Theatre Companywww.thisisnotatheatrecompany.com
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