Invitation to Submit Letters on Hope and Regret for Play, by May 31, 2013

From Kate J:

Hey everyone! I'm developing a play and I need all of you to pitch in!

About the Project Currently titled Holding On, this play is about hope and regret--two things we all seem to hold onto. I want to integrate the voices of many people. What are you hoping for? What do you regret? Tell me in a couple letters (two, to be exact, but more if you wish).

Hope Write a letter of hope. Write it to someone or something who/that isn't a part of your life yet, but will be important to you. Something you're looking forward to. Something or someone big. Be honest!

Regret Similarly, write a letter of regret. Again, write someone or something that is no longer a part of your life and you regret how you (or the someone or something) left things.

These letters will be read by actors, so feel free to be as anonymous as you need to be. Remember to limit them to 350 words!

I need lots of letters, so please share this post! Due date: Please send these in to me by May 31

email these letters to holdingonto@gmail.com

You Wouldn't Know Him/Her, He/She's from London/Texas, Hidden Room Theatre and Look Left Look right, March 5 - 13

Artists are intrigued by the possibilities of social media, a fascination that they share with commercial enterprises, institutions, marketing strategists and your old granny. In 2010-2011 the share of the U.S. over-55's on Facebook quadrupled to 9.5%, because of a more than nine-fold increase in the numbers, to just under 10 million creaky Facebook boomers.

It's no surprise that Austin with its happily volatile mixture of knowledge industries and creatives is exploring that fuzzy junction of social tech and art.

Beth Burns and collaborators at her Hidden Room Theatre, particularly the gifted actor and technological practitioner Robert Matney, have cobbled together with London's Look Left Look Right theatre an alluring trans-Atlantic theatre experiment. Adjusting themselves both to time zone differences and to the disynchronous switches to daylight savings time, the companies convene again this weekend on Saturday and Sunday for You Wouldn't Know Him/Her, etc. You can 't get a ticket, by the way, at least not in Austin, for all twenty-five places in the east Austin loft apartment are filled for the 3 p.m. sessions on Saturday and Sunday. Promoters had announced the venture for all four weekends in March but have for unspecified reasons curtailed to only two.

But you can join in directly, on-line, thanks to some crafty engineering via the Round House Theatre in London, venue for the UK participants. The theatre's live feed will feature both Skype video feeds as well as a edited and controlled Twitter feed of comments you and others generate using the tag #TexasLondon.

Austin principals in person and London principals in remote will engage SXSW media visitors tomorrow, Saturday, March 12, with a discussion of the experiment.

Read more at AustinLiveTheatre.com . . . .