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Unlike film, music and video, theater is a local thing, hardly ever streamed to a global audience (the exceptions being programs such as NT Live or the Met opera broadcasts). The Around the Globe Chain Play wants to turn that geographic limitation into a writing opportunity. Presented by NYC World Theatre Day for the third year in a row, the Chain Play will be written “as it travels around the world making 18 stops with playwrights from 16 countries.” It’s like the game “Exquisite Corpse”: Each writer will add one to four pages of new material that pushes the plot along and inspires the next writer. The scribes are:
Kristoffer Diaz (USA)
Andrew Templeton (Canada)
Mariana Levy (Argentina)
Mariana Hartasánchez (Mexico)
Sarah Treem (USA)
Ross Meuller (Australia)
Michelle Tan (Singapore)
Purva Naresh (India)
Vera Ion (Romania)
Natalia Antonova (Russia)
Najwa Sabra (Lebanon)
Deborah Asiimwe (Uganda)
JC Niala (Kenya)
Ogutu Muraya (The Netherlands)
Lola Blasco Mena (Spain)
Oladipo Agbouaje (England)
Ian Rowlands (Wales)
Qui Nguyen (USA)
We don’t know anything about plot, genre, characters or theme, but we have been assured it will be in English. The writing begins and ends in the USA and the finished work will be heard in a reading directed by Ana Margineanu on Mar 27 at 7pm at The Lark Play Development Center. Make your reservations to the FREE event here. The event will also stream live here. The reading will be followed by a reception where local luminaries will read the International Theatre Institute’s World Theatre Day Message.