Storytelling

Shakespeare in the social-media age.

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

Six actors of  ”Romeo & Juliet” are posting tweets in which they improvise dialogues, following a script grid created by writers Bethan Marlow and Tim Wright.

I find that ‘Such tweet sorrow’ is an innovative approach to the concept of narrative story, because it opens new perspectives to the way a story can be presented.

Twitter forces the actors to write their posts in only 140 characters. It surely is a real challenge for them to create a condensed, yet meaningful dialogue. However, they have the possibility to link to their posts any kind of contents, such as videos or blogs — which opens endless possibilities to interact with the characters.

I’m very curious to observe how the ‘followers’ will experience the story.

But what I also wonder about is: what would happen if the audience, too, could influence the course of the story… ???

Such Tweet Sorrow

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