Below is a short Description I wrote of a play I'm acting in next week (16th &17th of July). I'm playing Scott in the Essential Components of Marriage", I'm in the Chorus in The Darryl and am a character in Bob.

"Said and Meant" (by R. Wyatt) is a play about deliberate misunderstandings, accidental misconceptions and deep down, what we really mean.

 

The play consists of 5 short vignettes (short descriptive plays) where aspects of expression and truth are explored.

Edna's Drama Queen tirades are almost a daily occurrence for husband and her friend Caroline, but in Edna discovers, we find out that there's a sensitive human being in there after all.

In The Essential Components of Marriage the "perfect" couple, Scott and Fran go to see their Pastor, George for Marriage Counselling – will love get them through the session or will it ruin everything…and why is Scott so anxious for them to be married?

In Bob, I want you, Bob is the most popular guy around. Eleven people want him REALLY badly. But why? And can Bob just be Bob?

In the Enabling Club, Alisha, Clare and Bernice are three suburban women who deplore violence on TV. Their support for each other through life's little trials is absolute. But maybe the secrets in their Basements mean that their mutual support has gone a little bit too far?

The Darryl, is a creature of woe and dread for all he meets because of his long, boring narratives. Can Pamela and Shawn with the help of the Goddess Athena escape from the clutches of his boring monologues, or will even the Gods fall victim? Let the ancient Greek Chorus be your guide through this story of Gods and mortals.


Featuring, Mirko Armiento, David Garrahy, Ina Iankulova, Popi Tsafou, Filippo Menga, Angeliki Mavridou, Chiara Montecucco, Aisling Muldowney, Eirini Pastelakou, Lucia Russo, Angela Steen, Davide Zaru, (Music Kyriakos Spiliotopoulos).

It knows everything?

There's been a lot of discussion recently based on this Atlantic article, written by Nicholas Carr, simply entitled "Is Google making us stupid?" In it he argues that Google is having all sorts of detrimental effects on his brain, life and writing. He quotes mainly anecdotal stories to argue that, in general Googlers attention-spans are declining, along with our desire to be immersed in anything longer than about 500 words of text (meaning end of pesky Novels or Theses!): "Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words" he says, "now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski."

Caleb Crain is of the opinion that the internet is even changing the way we write. He notes how most Blogs have a light, easy and inviting tone which almost begs the reader not to browse elsewhere: "A text on the internet rarely takes for granted your decision to read it or to continue reading it. There is often, instead, a jazzy, hectoring tone." 

Is this all just "intellectual angst" as posited by Shane Hegarty, or how much the Internet is changing what, how and how much we read and write?

Alberto Manguel, in "The Library at Night"  (it sounds like a lovely book, but one I'm sure I'll never read!) suggests the consequence of the multimedia world are that: "The library that contained everything," Manguel laments, 'has become the library that contains anything."  

Yes it's great to have almost all information just a click away, but truth and wisdom cannot be accessed in 500 words alone.