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Message Send Failure:
Site-Unspecificity in Plant Theater’s Dreams of Riley’s Friends;or , Why Won’t Riley Respond to My Texts? - TDR: The Drama Review
- The MIT Press
- Volume 60, Number 3, Fall 2016 (T231)
- pp. 160-165
- Article
- Additional Information
The choices audiences make in “self-scheduled” smartphone plays inevitably inform their experiences. How does the lack of site-specificity in these works that take place exclusively through mobile technologies enable a greater sense of intimacy between dis-placed actor and audience? And how do these plays challenge the self-surveillance mechanisms embedded within social media technologies, even as they exploit them?