Ed. note: In Line One, seven actors with cell phones receive calls from nonactors and repeat whatever they hear for the audience. In the spirit of the show, Stranger art director Corianton Hale attended Line One and then called Brendan Kiley to talk about it:

I enjoyed Line One. The nature of it makes it open to disaster—but this one wasn't a disaster. Every night has a theme and I thought I was going to the "Gay Christians" one, but I saw the one about the number 2 bus. It seemed totally random, which was fascinating. The actors would adjust their volume and position on the stage to bring you the most interesting story. Some calls were just rambling, like "Oh, I'm just waiting for the bus and there's a homeless man digging through the garbage" and then another person would call and another and it built into a verbal symphony.

It'd be interesting to see different nights with different themes. The reason you go to a blog is because who knows what will be there tomorrow? This play—it's as amorphous as human relationships. It had high points and low points, like any conversation. And sometimes the boredom was interesting. You know how some movies are so eventless that that becomes a statement by itself?

It was a combination of voyeurism and exhibitionism. There's something clandestine about it. I can't put my finger on exactly what—or even if that's the right adjective. In plays, you're used to having some art behind the lines, but these were just frank and not thought out. It was like having seven different cameras set up in the city, seeing these seven different people having different experiences with different intensities all at the same time. All you can do is create the environment and see what happens.