Concrete Playground

New media and cloud computing have opened up a broad scope for creative collaborations. While the geeks at Google are busy Waving at one another, there are producers out there rejigging existing social technologies to combine powers just as effectively. Twitter is a very successful example, having given birth to the loved/despised Twitterature and, now, the six-part theatrical piece, Friends in Danger.

Co-written by Brooke Robinson, Maisie Dubosarsky and Lia Savvides, Friends in Danger began life as three fictional twitter profiles daily tended by the co-authors and developed into complex characters. From these seeds, the writing team has developed six 10-minute shorts that gently overlap in an exploration of a bizarre shopping list of modern calamities: eugenics, moustaches and the circus.

I'm imagining a story about Kaiser Wilhelm II breeding lions that bear his trademark "wings of glory" lip growth, which is an exciting excuse as any to see some new theatre.

http://www.newtowntheatre.com.au