I’m a big fan of a theater group called the Neo-Futurists (they’re the creative force behind “Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind,” a show that’s come to Woolly Mammoth for the past couple of years, and will be back starting December 7). I recently discovered that the Neo-Futurists are on Twitter, and that each week, they provide a prompt to inspire their followers to write short, tweet-length “plays” – aka twitterplays. This week, the instructions were, simply:

TWITTERPLAY ASSIGNMENT: write a 1-tweet play that uses 1)breakfast food & 2)a siren #twitterplay

In turn, fans from across the country started publishing twitterplays. Here’s mine:

Center stage: A woman, graveside. Tombstone:”Huevos rancheros, RIP.” She weeps:”My love, you set off a siren in my intestines.” #twitterplay

…and here’s a round-up of all of ‘em (link added 10/22/09).

Another example of how constraints (in this case, word count) breed creativity…

Related Links:

• More about the NY Neofuturists
• Get tix to Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (highly recommended!!) at Woolly, 12.7.09-1.2.10
• Follow me on Twitter

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