1. Time
and pace reinforces the reality effect because something happening in “real
time” and having the pace of an event that could occur in our natural lives
(even if it might be at the height of an emotional event) makes it appear that
the form of theatre being observed is unmediated, like life. Single tweet plays are a quick in the moment
form of theatre. Time and pace reinforces
the reality effect here because it is like taking a little clip/tidbit of
someone’s life. A momentary glance into
what is happening with them or in the world or something completely
fictional. The audience does not know
whether it is fictional or not though.
We look at it as a glimpse of truth.
Multi-tweet Twitter dramas happen over days, weeks, months, years. So, it occurs over a long time, but the pace
of the different tweets is quick. They
are short and to the point. This method
allows a glimpse into the daily, unmediated life of the person posting
them. In futurist pieces, they are also
short and to the point, but we don’t know all the circumstances surrounding
what is happening. This is like life
because normally we don’t know everything about a situation, just the gist. Finally, durationals are like the monotonous
everyday life we live. They are long and
sometimes eventful but mostly, I feel they are mundane.
2. In
class, I was in a group that did an experiment where we had everyone write a
play in 140 characters or less, then we split the plays up between the four of
us and went to different parts of the room and started reading/acting them out
at the same time. We let the class walk
around as they pleased to hear what they wanted to hear. If all the “plays” could be about the same
topic, I think they could be combined to create a “master” play. This play could be purely entertaining and
fictional or it could contain real world issues and give insight on them. The audience could even post to a Twitter
page made for the play or use hashtags, and there could be an improve part to
the show using these.
I thought that the experiment that ya'll did was a lot of fun. I chose to go to everyone and listen to all the "plays." At first I wanted to hear what I wrote and see how it was "performed." Then I found myself really interested in what other people had to say and how they said it. It would be cool to take this experiment and do it in a lab show. I would be interested in how the audience would react. Cool job!
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