The audience found the play very funny. I had no idea how it was going to come across, because on the one hand it's chaotic and experimental, but it's also very idea-driven. And we're working with many of the same actors, too. A good portion of the action happens on video. It's a large chunk of stuff to be seen on TV monitors, so I'm trying to keep the video world blended in with the live performance, so that the audience isn't quite sure whether it's been prerecorded or is a live feed.
Characters move to and fro through the live and video worlds.
Camille and Bret also appear live, for example, and Kepler and the Inquisitor are interviewed on video. But I don't think there's any point where characters on stage speak to or are spoken to by characters on video, at least not the way it's being staged now. Um, sure, although I'm not sure what the double dialog spin is. There are two arguments going on at once. When the play strikes them, law and astrophysics were in strange and early stages.