Live action theatre on facebook/Twitter

[sobrique]

A thought that crossed my mind this weekend - could you do a piece of theatre or performance art using Facebook or Twitter? Y'know, create a scripted but improvisational drama in real time.

What sorts of things could you do, and how would you deal with an audience you did or didn't tell in advance?

One that crossed my mind is a sort of murder mystery type thing - get a bunch of the characters to relay 'parts' of the story as it's developing, with maybe a detective thread in the middle of it?

Ideally something geared up towards some manner of audience participation.

Comments

[jorune.livejournal.com]

If it was on twitter then your story would need to cope with the possibility that the whole world could intervene at any point. There are people on twitter who continually search for key words/phrases and then comment on them. Therefore the possibility of the story being hijacked by unexpected forces and being completely derailed is beyond non zero.

[sobrique.livejournal.com]

Which would be largely why I'd be looking to present it as ... well, as if twitter were a report on a 'real' event of some form, rather than something explicitly 'interactive fic'