Ten teams, one scene
Two actors and a director, ten minutes to rehearse, five minutes of Jill Friedman’s The Platform. Ten times over, and no two alike.
In Jill Friedman’s The Platform, two people who were in a relationship years ago meet by accident while waiting for a train.
Ten teams took it on. Two actors and a director each, ten minutes to rehearse, a five-minute excerpt to play.
The same words, ten times. Ten wildly different plays.
Scene Machine is the fastest argument we know that a script is not the performance. What an audience sees is what one particular set of people decided the words meant, on one particular night.