THEATER: Feldman Twitters Shakespeare

Local performance artist Brian Feldman (The Feldman Dynamic) is taking Shakespeare to a new level by using Twitter to broadcast the Bard's romantic comedy The Taming fo the Shrew throughout the web, one entry at a time.
if you thought reading Shakepseare was tedious before, wait till it's streaming onto your screen in 140-character increments. Who knows? This "Shakespeariment" could make these classic tales more accessible. After all, things tend to be easier to digest in small doses. Here's some info from Brian himself:

Twitter of the Shrew - adapted for Twitter by @BrianFeldman from the classic comedy attributed to William Shakespeare, with additional material by @irenelpynn, is a Twitter adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew (1590-1594). Spanning 19 Twitter accounts and presented over 12 days (one scene daily), Twitter of the Shrew attempts to live up to Shakespeare's "Brevity is the soul of wit" proverb, by condensing the play's iambic pentameter dialogue down to updates of 140 characters or less. "It's a great idea!," says Austin Tichenor of The Reduced Shakespeare Company. For those who don't yet exist in the Twitterverse, Twitter is that crazy-popular, social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (otherwise known as tweets). Twitter of the Shrew is not sanctioned, endorsed or sponsored by Twitter, Inc.

14 - 25 February 2009 (GMT-5): One Scene Daily

http://twitter.com/AmwayShakes

and 19 additional Twitter of the Shrew character accounts:

ShrewKate / Katherine Minola / http://twitter.com/ShrewKate

PetruccioV / Petruccio / http://twitter.com/PetruccioV

Grumio / Grumio / http://twitter.com/Grumio

VeronaCurtis / Curtis / http://twitter.com/VeronaCurtis

Hdasher / Haberdasher / http://twitter.com/Hdasher

Tailor4Petruc / Petruccio's Tailor / http://twitter.com/Tailor4Petruc

BiancaMinola / Bianca Minola / http://twitter.com/BiancaMinola

BaptistaMinola / Baptista Minola / http://twitter.com/BaptistaMinola

Lucenti0 / Lucentio / http://twitter.com/Lucenti0

Cambi0 / Cambio / http://twitter.com/Cambi0

Trani0 / Tranio / http://twitter.com/Trani0

Biondell0 / Biondello / http://twitter.com/Biondell0

MrVincentio / Vincentio / http://twitter.com/MrVincentio

ThePendant / The Pendant / http://twitter.com/ThePendant

Hortensio / Hortensio / http://twitter.com/Hortensio

LitioH / Litio / http://twitter.com/LitioH

PaduaWidow / The Widow of Padua / http://twitter.com/PaduaWidow

OldGremio / Gremio / http://twitter.com/OldGremio

UPadua / University of Padua / http://twitter.com/UPadua

To experience Twitter of the Shrew in real time, be sure to follow each of the character accounts, and set device updates 'On' to receive all #tots updates via SMS (only advised for those with unlimited messaging). All dialogue will RT @AmwayShakes.

Amway Shakespeare Opportunity (Brian Feldman, Artistic Director) will never do traditional Shakespeare. Upcoming productions include The Shakespeariment (24 Apr 2009) and, you just knew this was coming, The Twitter of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (May 2009). http://twitter.com/AmwayShakes