{"id":7351,"date":"2022-10-12T12:39:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T10:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/12\/textplay-review-beckett-and-stoppard-sms-comedy-is-short-on-lols\/"},"modified":"2022-10-12T12:39:57","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T10:39:57","slug":"textplay-review-beckett-and-stoppard-sms-comedy-is-short-on-lols","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/12\/textplay-review-beckett-and-stoppard-sms-comedy-is-short-on-lols\/","title":{"rendered":"Textplay review \u2013 Beckett and Stoppard SMS comedy is short on lols"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Available online<br \/><\/strong>A virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter<\/p>\n<p>This virtual conversation between Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard imagines what two giants of the theatre would talk about \u2013 or, rather, text each other about.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing of much interest, it turns out. Written by the pseudonymous Archer Eland (could there be a more contrived pseudonym?) and produced by <a href=\"https:\/\/nyuskirball.org\/\">NYU Skirball<\/a>, it plays out in messages over 35 minutes, complete with a sad face emoji (Beckett), keyboard smiles (Stoppard) and love hearts (both), reflecting our own WhatsApp ramblings back at us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nyuskirball.org\/events\/archer-eland-textplay\/\">Available online until 3 December<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2022\/oct\/12\/textplay-review-beckett-and-stoppard\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a5025eba26171f42bf6bb997669036f5091ab820\/0_0_2560_1536\/master\/2560.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=8f733261a2e33b4be7ff3c627954aba4\" title=\"Textplay review \u2013 Beckett and Stoppard SMS comedy is short on lols\" \/>Available onlineA virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter<br \/>\nThis virtual conversation between Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard imagines what two giants of the theatre would talk about \u2013 or, rather, text each other about.<br \/>\nNothing of much interest, it turns out. Written by the pseudonymous Archer Eland (could there be a more contrived pseudonym?) and produced by NYU Skirball, it plays out in messages over 35 minutes, complete with a sad face emoji (Beckett), keyboard smiles (Stoppard) and love hearts (both), reflecting our own WhatsApp ramblings back at us.<br \/>\nAvailable online until 3 December Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Available onlineA virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter This virtual conversation between Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard imagines what two giants of the theatre would talk about \u2013 or, rather, text each other about. Nothing of much interest, it turns out. Written by the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/12\/textplay-review-beckett-and-stoppard-sms-comedy-is-short-on-lols\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Textplay review \u2013 Beckett and Stoppard SMS comedy is short on lols<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}