The Confidante: Soliloquy Webcast Project
Today, March 29, 2008 we begin the Psyber Shakespeare initiative with our first endeavor. “The Confidante” Soliloquy Webcast Project.
The idea is simple: The convention of the soliloquy is direct audience address. The audience becomes as a character to whom the on stage characters confide. Many Shakespeare practitioners refer to this mass identity as “the confidante.”
In today’s cyber hungry existence, so many confide in the world at large through myspace, face-book and blog sites. What if Shakespearean characters did the same? What if they delivered soliloquies through online journals on camera, as if to the confidante? Would the shakespearean convention of the soliloquy hold up? Would the convention of soliloquy become more immediate to a citizenry reliant on text messages and e-mail to connect? Would we be able to reach more people with these speeches than those who would otherwise “get it” ?
We’re now accepting letters of interest if you’d like to participate!
Just email me at the link below and become part of the Cyber Shakespeare Movement!
Adam Stuart Littman
Welcome to the Psyber Shakespeare Movement!
Check back regularly. Once we get the recordings done and the ball is rolling we will be adding material as fast as we get it.
Psyber -Psychological projection of ones psyche
Psybernetics- Psychological interfacing with technological communication mediums.
Psyber-*Name* -User-Name denoting of a human controlled on-line avatar
Psyber (S?-ber)/Psybernetic: A technological culture term used in a high-tech culture associated with Cyberpunk and with online digital social culture studies.
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