On the evening of October 18th, 2002 at 7pm, I worked with 6 fellow gamer/performers connected to the same "Quake III Arena" game server online. Instead of participating in the graphic, three dimensionally simulated environment of death, the group of performers recreated, by typing on our keyboards, an episode from the popular sit-com "Friends" - each of us logged in as one of the characters from the show. (The primary goal of this game is to kill as many opponents before they kill you - most kills wins the match.) So, Phoebe, Ross, Monica, Joey, Chandler and Rachel performed, line for line, an adaptation of this season's first episode by typing, while at the same time reciting, the lines from the show using the games online messaging system - the lines of text appeared at the top of each player's screen in real time. Our performers functioned as passive, neutral visitors to the game - we were constantly killed and reincarnated to continue the performance. The piece was presented a second time in 2003 using six projected points of view, multiple audio channels and microphones for each performer.
