Audible Only

Audible’s Minetta Lane Theatre has a production dictate shared by no other company in New York:

Everything produced must also work on audio-only Audible. 

As in, the text must stand on its own, without the staging. Which means: what the audience sees on stage will be inessential to understanding the basic meaning of the text. Instead, these visuals can operate as an extratextual commentary, in conversation with the foundational text, but without being a core component.

Granted, all productions add elements nowhere to be found in the published scripts, which are as much the permanent record as an Audible recording. BUT, these scripts can at least suggest the intended staging, whereas you’re truly listening blind on Audible.

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