This is an audio reading of Play
#3 Social Me-Dia in the Cycle of 8 X 10. This reading is done unrehearsed by me,
solo, playing all characters, unedited and reading stage directions. This is my
Covid19 Iso project - or part of it. Enjoy! Many more to come with me doing all
characters or with another performer.
The play deals with ABBY’s obsession with social media and her mother’s assumption that ABBY is a victim of bullies, only to find that her daughter is the bully.
CHARACTERS: 2 FEMALEABBY CINCOTTA: 15-year old girl
8 X 10 is A cycle
of 8 plays approx 10 minutes each.
Play # 1
Baggage
Play # 2 Phone Calls on a Train
Play # 3 Social ME-dia
Play # 4 Lover Boy!
Play # 5 The House That Alex Built
Play # 6 DB and Scruff
Play # 7 Thievin’ Thugs
Play # 8 Foxy’s Hangout
The 8 plays are connected not by a narrative thread, but by themes and characters. A character that is only mentioned in a play then appears in the following play until we get to Play # 8, when a character is mentioned who appeared in Play # 1.
As I wrote the plays, I realised that each dealt with a different social issue: bullying, perceptions of disability, street violence etc. I then noticed that each play had characters using mobile phones and that phone technology had become a character!
Cast
Baggage – 1 Woman, 1 Man
Take My Phone -Please!– 3 Women, 2 Men
Social ME-dia – 1 Woman, 1 Teenage Girl
Lover Boy! – 1 Woman, 1 Teenage Boy
The House That Alex Built– – 1 Man, 1 Woman
DB & Scruff – 1 Man, 1 Woman
Thievin’ Thugs – 2 Men (2 off-stage voice)
Foxy’s Hangout – 2 Men
See extracts on following pages of blog.
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