EpicPedia is a web application that presents itself as a theatre script to explain the development of a Wikipedia article. The script ‘translates’ the revision/editing history and all the generated meta data of a Wikipedia article to a theatre script and hereby exposes Wikipedia’s mechanisms. The projects’ title, EpicPedia, refers to Bertolt Brechts’ Epic Theatre, the starting point for the theory behind this web script.
Constant gives Annemieke the possibility to investigate if the scripts that EpicPedia generates have a theatrical value. Therefore Annemieke has asked her sister, Marloes van der Hoek, to help her. Marloes graduated in 2006 from a master scenography and acts in several ways in the theatre world. Together they will investigate how the web related ‘EpicPedia’ can be used for texts and situations with a theatrical starting point.