The New York Times: The game is Guess That Play and the first round is a gimme. Among the clues one player texts the other are emojis of a skull, a goblet, crossed swords and nine tombstones. The answer is obviously “Hamlet,” but the next round isn’t as easy. What to make of a glass of milk, some trees and, yes, another tombstone?
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This sounds like an interesting experience. I like the idea of digital theatrical experiences that lean into the fact that they are in a different medium but can still be entertaining storytelling. This may not be your typical theatrical production if you would even call it that, but who cares. It can be its own unique thing. If it makes people more comfortable to call it a short film or streamed digital content, then that is totally reasonable. With covid forcing theater artist to explore the digital sphere there was a lot of fumbling and a lot of reinventing the wheel and trying to force the “square theater production” into the “round digital medium,” but there were also new things happening like doing The Seagull on Sims 4. Now we have something that definitely feels theatrical. Its hard to get more theater-y than Beckett and Stoppard. And its digital in a very unapologetic way. Watching a text message conversation feels very natural on the internet and it feels fresh that that’s being explore in the theater scene. I don’t know if I want to spend $20 dollars for content similar to what I get for free on TikTok but I’m glad that digital theatrical content is sticking around.
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