It may seem a tad counterintuitive at first, but when theater artist Jessica Creane set out to explore intimacy in the digital form, the first thing she did was to create a Shakespeare-inspired digital realm that you experience through your phone.

In R&J, a five-day gamified art experience, you’re paired up with a faceless partner of whom you know very little at first. Together, through a mobile site, you’ll slowly exchange thoughts, play mini-games and — hopefully — write weird sonnets together as you make your way through Shakespeare’s tragedy.

For Creane, who has performed onstage in Broadway and holds a master’s from Pig Iron School of Advanced Performance Training, the experience of R&J looks to explore the modern concept of intimacy and the power of making true connections with total strangers.

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