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Idea: a play about a few characters who are all part of a single group chat. The chat is displayed onstage as they go about their lives, & you get to see the discrepancy between what they post and what's actually going on. The chat looks fine by itself but troubling with context
it would be a meditation on the inner loneliness of individuals who feel compelled to fit into the group narrative. what's tragic: all members of the group wish they could have more intimate, honest relationships with each other, but all assume that the others would laugh at them
It'll be interesting to get to see what each person types but then deletes w/o posting (especially when someone else replies first). Each character has a different wallpaper for the group chat. Someone posts the most selfies, another posts the most memes, another, political links
On retrospect it wouldn't permanently be in the group chat – it would show the phone of whichever character is the lead of that act of that play. So you'll also see notifications, private messages, calendar alerts, alarms, etc. This will feel really voyeuristic and intimate af
At some point something terrible happens to a character. (Fill in this blank yourself). And, for an uncomfortably long time, while they are incapacitated, the audience witnesses the barrage of messages and calls that the character isn't seeing.