Co-playwriting between screens: The aesthetics of access in multimodal anthropology

Foregrounding two original plays about Turner Syndrome written in collaboration with an interlocutor with the genetic condition, this article explores the aesthetic dissonance that emerged while co-playwriting via Skype and Google Docs. Foregrounding the aesthetic sensibilities and conventions, normative representational concerns, and sensuous knowledges interrogated and produced in the process, this article exemplifies how multimodal collaborations are enmeshed in considerations of access in anthropology that promote ethical discovery and transformation with our interlocutors. To extend this process to the reader, excerpts from Someone to Talk To and Hope Deferred are presented in visual dialogue with commentary from the playwriting process.