mashable.com: A small Philadelphia-based company called New Paradise Laboratories is re-creating theater for the connected generation. It’s incorporating social networks like Facebook, Skype and Chatroulette into the production and presentation of shows, pulling theater into the virtual space. This innovative experience takes audiences through a rabbit hole on a visually stimulating online adventure. Stories evolve on social networks with multimedia components from YouTube and Sound Cloud. It can be hard to decipher what’s real and what’s fiction.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Internet-Based Theater Company Lives Between Cyberspace and the Stage
mashable.com: A small Philadelphia-based company called New Paradise Laboratories is re-creating theater for the connected generation. It’s incorporating social networks like Facebook, Skype and Chatroulette into the production and presentation of shows, pulling theater into the virtual space. This innovative experience takes audiences through a rabbit hole on a visually stimulating online adventure. Stories evolve on social networks with multimedia components from YouTube and Sound Cloud. It can be hard to decipher what’s real and what’s fiction.
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The idea of incorporating Twitter, Facebook, etc, into a show doesn't seem THAT new, but I really like the idea of having profiles for the characters, and whole online presences. Interacting with the audience before the show is brillant for publicity, and is also just cool in general. It seems like it would make the characters appear more real, and relatable, as well.
The characters' profiles are very interesting to sift through. We as a generation are so familiar with the different ways that people represent themselves online and the degree to which people are actually present on social media. Because of that, it was sort of obvious with at least a few of the characters that they were fabricated, because their body of posts or the way that they described themselves were just not realistic. The idea is good, I think. I wonder how much people actually interacted with the character profiles that were available, or if it was just more of a very elaborate way to create a character. As an actor, it seems like a great and different way to explore your character. As an audience member, I'm not so sure if I would be able to take it seriously and actually get something out of the interaction since I would know it to be fake.
So this article begs the question how much are we just preforming online already. How different are we on facebook then we are in real life. Because there is time to think about how you respond and what you post about yourself you can cut everything about yourself that you don't like. Are we not accurately portraying how we talk to people, what we like, and the things we do? Is it okay? Is facebook just another venue for us to create the people we want to world to see, instead of who we actually are?
These shows seem to be interesting but maybe a little bit too taken with the idea that social networking is new. I wonder how many stories you can tell about social media before it gets old.
I'm skeptical about this idea, Yeah it's tech saavy and innovative in its field, but I wonder if this changes the experience of physically going out to see an actually show with real people. The idea of making profiles for these characters seems like a great idea for publicity, but I feel like maintaining them might come to be a bit of a tedious job when people try to interact with them like that would any other person with an online chat account.
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