Theatre is communication.
Texting is communication.
Can you combine the two?
The answer is clearly a yes, given the new production coming out this week. Returning Fire is a collaboration between Theatre New Brunswick and Next Folding Theatre Company. In this play, the first chapter is entirely communicated through text messages — on which the you, the audience, eavesdrops over the course of a few hours. In the end, you meet the characters in person, in a real place, in real life. The play was written by today’s guest, Ryan Griffith. Join us as we talk communication, theatre, and disembodied characters.
Music today:
- Empress Of tells all about snow of a different form: Water, Water, taken from the album Me.
- You may have yours soon, but It’s My Turn Now (so says Tommy Green Jr).
- Apropros of nothing (and everything), it’s Old Man Leudecke telling us of The Girl In The Pearl Earring (found on his most recent album, Domestic Eccentric).
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