Shakespeare & Twitter... Wha?

So back in February this article was posted on Mashable about a Twitter version of Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew.

The idea was to tweet a scene per day, each character having their own Twitter stream, but the lines were cut down into 140 bite-sized chunks. From looking at the stream (they aggregated all posts with the hashtag #tots) they cut words down into the kind of twitter shorthand, so they could minimize the amount of tweets.

I think it's an interesting idea. It allows you to read it from a different perspective, a more passive one where the words come to you. On the other hand, the shorthand is a little hard to read and if you don't know the script or have one near you, it could be difficult to follow.

They were smart by aggregating all the tweets under #tots so that way the reader could get a birds-eye view.

I still kind of compare it like I compare a staged reading and a full production, reading it by tweets just isn't as good.

However, lets say you get a group of talented actors from all over the country and have them improv a new version of it over the net. Talk about an exciting and engaging experience, it's basically workshopping/improving a play over twitter. Get a talented playwright involved who can really harness what the actors tweet out and who knows what the possibilities could be.

What do you think? Am I off my rocker?