X-Stream

An Online Play Reading About Reading Plays Online

Written by Casandra Clifford // First Kiss Theatre

All zoom productions are unintentionally Annie Baker plays.

The prolonged silences.
The awkward pauses.
The stark fourth wall created by your computer camera and the World Wide Web.

One may think “hey that’s awesome! I love The Flick!” or “The Aliens is totally rad; I’d dig that happenstance”, but this unintentional theatricality comes at a price: control. Artists on zoom lack the ability to control pacing, WiFi, outside noises, housemate’s footsteps, and many other technical issues. This makes productions–– and rehearsals–– harder than they’ve ever been before. In this piece, we get the inside scope on an attempted play reading. But will X-Stream be an Alien success? Or a Flick turned Flop?

Produced in First Kiss Theatre’s Theatre is Dead Festival // October 2020

Directed by Rebecca Rose Schilsky

Edited by Erin Frances Spiers

Featuring Liliana Mastroianni, Sterling Ross & Erin Frances Spiers

To view the production, click on this link!

To read more about the festival, click here!