I think that twitter plays take away the reality effect. I
think I should start off by saying that I don’t really think that twitter plays
are theatre. They may be scripts, but they aren’t plays nor are they really
closet dramas either. With
something so short and through a medium like twitter, it takes away the reality
because you don’t know who the person on the other end of the tweet is. They
could completely be lying to you and say they’re doing something. Someone in
class used a real life example of her friend live tweeting a conversation that
she heard in the quad and we have no idea if it was a real conversation or
not. Durationals on the other
hand, I think, dig more into the reality effect. I think if you sit in on a
piece like Quizoola or Speak Bitterness, it is clearly
unmediated. They just keep going or mediate themselves. Quizoola would keep going on until someone said “Do you want to
stop?” “Yes.”
I don’t really think that twitter plays and durationals are the right here right now of theatre.
Nothing like this happens in Baton Rouge. It’s probably different in New York,
but the things that are popular are going to be the commercial things and that’s
what keeps theatre going. Because that’s what makes money. Maybe going into the future and looking
back, we’ll notice that these types of plays had more of an impact but to me,
right now,
Would you consider the person on the other side of the tweet a real person tweeting? It's interesting how you think that twitter plays are not theatre, but if you took them and put so many of them on a stage for and audience. Would that be considered theatre to you?
ReplyDeleteYes, you don't know whether or not the person tweeting is telling the truth, but it is assumed that you take it for face value. Especially if it were something along the lines of... "Had a bomb ass breakfast this morning! #blueberry #pancakes #eggs #orangejuice #yogurt" Posts of that nature "seem" to be unmediated. That very well might not be the case, but the reality effect is all about "seeming" to be unmediated. It doesn't actually have to be, for example reality tv.
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