Start at the bottom and work your way up to experience the tweets in chron order.

End of Act Two. For tweets from act three click here.

Or got to Act one here.

carmenhill: #apollo Follow the thread of light and truth. Battery permitting…

msalt: #Apollo A second bigger, Blacker Phoebus Apollo appears.Go back? Follow the light? WTF does that mean?

0rb: gold shoes X 2 !!!! #apollo

pcsghost: #apollo wipe your hands of the past

tknopeasnt: #Apollo Was that speech by Rosenbaum or Keystone?

AGoodHusband: Guaranteed that’s what Bush & Co are doing right this moment – washing their hands of history #apollo

theaimeeg: Sad but true, a lot of Germans did join the nazis thinking it was just another fraternal organization. #apollo

patjanowski: #Apollo “don’t you have any questions about your country?” will equal slavery in US?

pcsghost: #apollo i love teh big voice and the light in my eyes

clairewillett: #apollo “go back. follow the thread.” okay, so act three is gonna be, like, back in time? or trippy movement stuff again?

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0rb: gold shoes? #apollo

pcsghost: #apollo back to germany rudolph

msalt: #Apollo os: I didn’t know Rudolph cared that much about living in the US…

clairewillett: #apollo ooooh, cool lighting! phoebus apollo is back!

clairewillett: #apollo “what do people do, and what do we do with people?”

AGoodHusband: I’m pretty sure I know the guy playing the FBI agent. #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo is he being extradited?

0rb: ‘a person can be two things’…#apollo

clairewillett: #apollo okay, so now we’re on to the idea of someone being two people – one good, one bad – that don’t cancel each other out. interesting.

msalt: #Apollo os: my commemorative stamp, ah, i finally get the father/daughter thing paralleling father/son

ladyfriend: #apollo Oh but I feel like I’ve lost the narrative thread of this one

ladyfriend: #apollo …but given the subject matter, think it’s best that other plays that have come before crib the staging.

msalt: #Apollo os: fascinating, when science turns political

clairewillett: #apollo are we now colliding with the plot of that new tom cruise movie? or am i on crack?

fearlessyouth: #apollo Oh, so the fish is a metaphor for burning flesh of concentration camp slaves.

0rb: more excellent lighting. #apollo

msalt: #Apollo “Hitler sucked it down likke a life-giving elixir” so Von Braun saved the world by tricking Hitler that rocket would work?

carmenhill: #apollo Didn’t quite transcribe that last one correctly, sorry.

theaimeeg: I think it was “commemorative stamp,” @pcsghost

pcsghost: @aimeeg free wine for tweeters at intermission #apollo

msalt: #Apollo So visionaries are all genocidal, it’s inhuman to pursue dreams I guess.

carmenhill: #apollo You lost the war for Germany? Is that what you want to tell him? I don’t think that would help your cause.

msalt: #Apollo Nice line earlier about having the grace (luck?) to die early.

theaimeeg: I could use a drink right about now. #apollo

pcsghost: #apollo keeping silent to ensure legacy, my commemorative staff

msalt: #Apollo What? Is that Von Braun on trial for attempting to asssassinate hitler, up on the higher level, and sentenced to hang?

0rb: the 20th c as ballet, family drama, rabbit hole, labyrinth #apollo

pcsghost: #apollo ew graphic text. burning flesh. makes me cringe

theaimeeg: 10 times more people died making the B2 than being hit by it. wow. #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo now we got a little Beatitudes going on.

pcsghost: #apollo in the rabbit hole

fearlessyouth: #apollo 10 times more people died making the B2 than being hit by it. Wowza. Really?

clairewillett: #apollo “ten times as many people died MAKING the b-2 as being hit by it.” whooooaa. now we’re getting somewhere.

pcsghost: #apollo 10 times more people dies making the v2 than were hit by it

msalt: #Apollo OS: what if Anne F hadn’t suffered? You’ve got to be kidding me. What if nobody suffered…

tknopeasnt: #Apollo My history teacher has disappeared. Probably in the bar downstairs.

pcsghost: #apollo interrigate under the nooses

theaimeeg: #apollo nooses are never a good thing/

clairewillett: #apollo “attention has been paid. and paid. and paid. one really needs to move on.”

pcsghost: #apollo ashes, ashes, ashes, ashes

0rb: nooses have replaced the well-lit lights. how do we come to terms with the 20th c. #apollo

theaimeeg: #apollo wow. so ann frank HAD TO suffer?

pcsghost: excuses, excuses #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo oh god. nooses onstage. i’m not gonna like this.

msalt: #Apollo Now Rudolph is bad? He’s being honest throughout which makes him sympathetic. Yes, Brechtian is a good description.

pcsghost: #apollo nooses shiver

clairewillett: #apollo twitter faster, guys! we’re losing our edge! we’re not even in the top ten anymore!

carmenhill: #apollo Come on Arthur. Just say one blessed thing that is true.

theaimeeg: #apollo i’m only tweeting because rosario dawson is more popular than Apollo right now.

0rb: the power of objects. the cruelty of beauty. #apollo

patjanowski: #Apollo exactly!! Arcadia gave you all this info, but did it with incredible heart

tknopeasnt: #Apollo Twitterati in the balcony http://twitpic.com/147a9

carmenhill: #apollo Joining SS Party was like joining Kiwanis?

clairewillett: #apollo “these memberships were necessary to rise in the ranks – like . . . joining the kiwanis!” that’s pretty funny.

AGoodHusband: so he wasn’t a prisoner, he was a concentration camp victim #apollo

msalt: #Apollo Von Braun getting more British as he turns evil, Rudolph more German as he’s old and sympathetic. Huh?

clairewillett: #apollo “my membership in the SS was honorary!” okay, buddy, now you’re kinda splitting hairs . . .

AGoodHusband: I’m with the rest of the group – too intellectual, too Brechtian. I don’t see much passion – except for Von Braun #apollo

clairewillett: @msalt #apollo No, i’m with you. i’m waiting for like “proof” or “arcadia” moments – being transfixed by the wonder of discovery.

msalt: #Apollo comic girl Hitler seduced by, blows Von Braun. Uh…. no thanks.

clairewillett: #apollo Some of the humor in this is like British bedroom farce.

pcsghost: #apollo hitler make out!

pcsghost: #apollo balcony has glow of laptops and people on the edge of their seats

msalt: #Apollo os: magic? i appreciated the interrogation scene, but yes, still aching for magic, the scientist’s love of truth… too romantic?

pcsghost: #apollo is that hitler? i missed something

clairewillett: #apollo is that . . . a drag Hitler?

AGoodHusband: Hitler as a woman = intentional? #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo now we’re talking about responsibility and authority – does the nazi guy bear guilt from just doing his job? can he be a good guy?

theaimeeg: #apollo i always keep a fish in my tuxedo.

fearlessyouth: #apollo That smel…a dead fish? In the pocket of his tux?

msalt: #Apollo call back to the bike ride

pfs08: running out of power on laptop – have to switch to iPHONE — much slower typing — c’est la vie” #apollo

tpancio: It keeps breaking my heart thinking what a nice old man Rudolph was, for a murdering old nazi #apollo

pcsghost: #apollo elevated priest. speaking of conscince and responsibility, nice image

carmenhill: #apollo A moment of truth. What does it mean to be “truly responsible”?

pfs08: “if we are to be moral beings, must we not be large-hearted?” #apollo

theaimeeg: #apollo maybe i should pay better attention.

theaimeeg: #apollo i don’t quite get this whole bit with the pulling rags out of the nazi’s coat.

msalt: #Apollo OK, now they’re explaining the stripe uniform guy. Rudolph is being made sympathetic now, in interrogation. Deliberate?

pcsghost: #apollo what’s she pulling out of that box?

shesaidwhat: tknopeasnt (RG Coleman): #Apollo “Atomically endowed missile”. That’s what she said!

clairewillett: #apollo i knew it! you can’t put a fire pole onstage without everyone wondering when it’s gonna pay off with someone sliding down it.

msalt: #Apollo bat pole descent with rocket was cool. Why a tux? That’s Von Braun, right?

msalt: #Apollo os: what’s w the pole?

theaimeeg: #apollo well now, with the addition of the fire pole, this play is perfect.

msalt: #Apollo os: much less tweeting that I can hear during this scene,I cd b wrong. + “What could I do?” twice now…

0rb: history is brutal #apollo

tpancio: “Just enjoy the show and pause to add a one-line quip or impression once in a while!” #apollo

tpancio: “How can you be distracted by “blogging” when all you’re blogging about is how distracting your blogging about being distracted is?” #apollo

pcsghost: #apollo no money for rocket research, only war department

msalt: #Apollo Where is this going? Were we not competing against the Soviets after WW2? Was Stalin really cool, after all?

tpancio: Well someone’s out there reading: a comment from someone following Alison’s live blog on @portlandmercury (next tweet w/quote) #apollo

theaimeeg: #apollo visually stunning (and you can quote me on that!)

pcsghost: #apollo shiny rocket lady slow motion chased by von braun

pfs08: #apollo Arthur Rudolf’s case — interrogations after the fact — fighting the ‘red wave crashing against our shores”

msalt: #Apollo os: i love that he’s using the same pen that gave him power earlier, to sign away his power

AGoodHusband: @alisonhallett I think it says something about people’s lack of ability to control tech, letting it control us instead #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo awkward. how do you ask someone, “hey, are you a nazi?”

pcsghost: #apollo i love it when they project on to the boxes

msalt: #Apollo os: there ya go, scientist w/ a pure heart…

clairewillett: @0rb #apollo i know. i get it, thematically. i feel like they’re totally overdoing it though.

tknopeasnt: #Apollo I like how they simulate weightlessness on their chairs. I’m going to demonstrate that at the next office happy hour.

0rb: kind of a lot of ‘thrust’ talk #apollo

pcsghost: #apollo oo floor lights up like checker board

msalt: #Apollo What’s the the chair bump and grind moves? Methinks the choreographer goes to some crappy stripjoiints

0rb: shiny shiny rocket lady! #apollo

ladyfriend: #apollo I’m guessing by choreography that Nazi generals were hopelessly sexually frustrated.

pfs08: #apollo Sinatra (’fly me to the moon’)- pens as knowledge and technology transfered – military and politicians getting off on them – oof

theaimeeg: #apollo @pcsghost don’t get me started on twyla.

msalt: #Apollo os: have always loved this Sinatra tune, Buck Rogers rocket lady!

tknopeasnt: #Apollo the Conehead muse is back!

pcsghost: #apollo is the rocket goddess again and she dances

theaimeeg: #apollo ooh, shiny!

fearlessyouth: #apollo “In other words, hold my hand…in other words please be true.” Love shiny rocket head lady.

clairewillett: #apollo why hello again, Rocket Lady Whose Role I Do Not Fully Understand.

msalt: #Apollo i liked the memo bit, the distance and chronicle. also per earlier scientists’ defense, I remember now, monsters do exist

pcsghost: #apollo this is better than the twyla tharp sinatra ballet

PdxPipeline: @pcsghost how many of those boxes do you have? #apollo
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clairewillett: #apollo “fly me to the moon.” cute. i’m really digging the projections on these towers of boxes.

fearlessyouth: #apollo “Fly me to the moon.” Of course.

msalt: #Apollo the argument shouting “memo: blah blah” was distancing. Why aren’t two characters allowed to talk to each other normally, ever?

pcsghost: #apollo heree is the pen of power

theaimeeg: #apollo there’s something really ominous about gigantic american flags. …at least to me.

msalt: #Apollo os: there ya go, blaming the scientists. scientists’ pov coming up?

AGoodHusband: capturing German tech, succeeding with rockets, we die as Americans b/c we give up our morality #apollo

pcsghost: #apollo scientific knowledge puts you above morality or laws. hmmmmm

carmenhill: #apollo Immigration reform circa late ’40s: expunge records of German scientists and use them to beat Soviets to the moon.

clairewillett: #apollo “if you have a taste for collective massacre but your own skin is precious to you, become a scientist.”

pfs08: 50’s – when the state department actually stands on principle and tries to do…the right thing (imagine!) #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo yay! someone finally knocked over some boxes.

clairewillett: #apollo so we take in the nazi scientists because we don’t want the russians to get the technology instead of us. lesser of 2 evils?

theaimeeg: #apollo now THRUST THRUST THRUST

tknopeasnt: #Apollo “Atomically endowed missile”. That’s what she said!

msalt: #Apollo os: sign the what? ah, visas…

0rb: rocket geniuses! #apollo

alisonhallett: I don’t like that there’s a cybertrail of me finding Nazi references funny. #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo interesting – suggestion that just being a nazi was not evil – opportunism, a way to get a job? provocative. i’m not sure i agree.

pfs08: US harbors Nazi’s to get the tech – get advantage over Communists….”be a team player” – role of loyalty in compromising values #apollo

tpancio: @carmenhill -more #apollo twitterers @msalt, @orb, @anotherpdxblog, @AGoodHusband, @ladyfriend, @pdxpipeline

ladyfriend: #apollo Jazzy homoerotic scene btwn CIA agents & former Nazi operatives. I like. I like.

msalt: #Apollo ooh love the light squares

carmenhill: #apollo Conflict between punishing Nazis and using them to beat the Soviets to the moon. Is that Castro?

AGoodHusband: @carmenhill go to search.twitter.com and search #apollo – you’ll find most of the people tweeting.

anotherpdxblog: #Apollo nice catch.

fearlessyouth: #apollo Love the music…and awesome cool typing on filebox backdrop…now at an angle…oh wow.

alisonhallett: Was “100 percent nazi” supposed to be funny? i sure thought it was. #apollo

0rb: multimedia working really well right now. text projected on the boxes. shit, man. #apollo

patjanowski: #Apollo checking if the scientists’ hands are clean–symbols can be too pat. This is a play of ideas and symbols

AGoodHusband: my wife’s live reactions to the show (she doesn’t use Twitter) http://huffinisms.blogspot.com #apollo

theaimeeg: #apollo i’m only twittering to be a part of the trend.

tpancio: @carmenhill Here’s the list of #apollo tweeters: @pfs08, @clairewillett more on the way…

msalt: #Apollo Even Eli Rosenbaum’s heartfelt speech was brusquely shouted at audience. Like another twitterer said, it’s all on the idea plane.

pcsghost: #apollo hands poised. can’t type mesmerized

msalt: #Apollo os: i love this tango, orbiting, pushups…

AGoodHusband: The military crawling to the scientists, then dancing a tango – the dance of passion & sex #apollo

0rb: the pen and bike ballet. but srsly? wow! #apollo

carmenhill: @pcsghost You should give us a list of all the #apollo tweeters, so we can be following them, if we’re not already.

msalt: OK, the playwright hates NASA because they took in the Nazi scientists. Should rocketry have been evil knowledge, destoryed? #Apollo

0rb: drop and give me 20 #apollo

tpancio: I keep thinking of what it will be like for Nancy Keystone to recreate your experience of your show through this twitterstream #apollo

AGoodHusband: The other guys is doing it, so it’s okay for us to do it – soundsl like our current justification for torture #apollo #tcot

followbike: #apollo bicycle thing not so funny this time. the tone is darker how http://tinyurl.com/85ddcl (expand)

dalylab: #Apollo I want the media in this show BIGGER.

pcsghost: #apollo bicycle thing not so funny this time. the tone is darker how

msalt: #Apollo os: a question! morality! drama! a boy and his father! oh, the bike’s back…

carmenhill: #apollo What are we doing harboring Nazis in this country? Huh. Interesting German connection with space program.

ladyfriend: #apollo Holy hell. There are hundreds of neutral-tone file boxes forming the set piece for act 2 & the effect is amazing.

pcsghost: #apollo what people do and what do we do with people

clairewillett: #apollo “my oyster world melts away.”

clairewillett: #apollo okay, now we’re getting a story i’m invested in. guy’s trying to unravel his dad’s past.

pcsghost: #apollo mountain of silence mountain of secrets

msalt: what did thte old man mumble about petunias? #Apollo

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msalt: #Apollo os: this is the first time I’ve cared, the story of the boy’s father in 69, and watching the lunar landing, finally!

carmenhill: #apollo In July 1969 I was a 7-year-old living in Fresno, California. Still remember going to neighbor’s apartment to watch the moon walk.

pfs08: #apollo asked about what he saw liberating a death camp in Germany – end of WWII, a father opens mouth, no sound – but tears…

PdxPipeline: Note: @ladyfriend is rocking stilettos and #apollo tweets. Also, you can pre-order drinks for intermission & post-show #themoreyouknow

fearlessyouth: #apollo “Kids” are out doing karaoke. We’re tweeting live from Portland Center Stage. They called us ‘ridiculous dorks.”

clairewillett: #apollo how on earth did they rehearse this without the boxes?

AGoodHusband: On the right hand side it shows the top trending topics on Twitter. #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo this set with the boxes is fabulous. it’s fascinating to watch it re-shaping itself.

patjanowski: #Apollo removing the boxes of information to the sides and back of the stage make it look like a bunker

carmenhill: #apollo Stage looks like my home office right now…boxes and crap stacked to the ceiling!

msalt: #Apollo boxes are apparently a curtain, slow reveal like web porn on a 9600 baud modem to reveeal: old man reading papers?

AGoodHusband: I bet the TD was pissed when the designers wanted to do this box thing. #apollo

carmenhill: Retweeting @pcsghost: #apollo i hear we are more poular on twitter than obama right now

msalt: #Apollo wait a minute! I think thoses boxes are… EMPTY!

pfs08: RT @pcsghost: #apollo i hear we are more poular on twitter than obama right now WOW!

dalylab: #Apollo set is so well done – media could be bigger – twetters have crossed a boundry, now commenting verbally.

theaimeeg: #apollo I am going to spend the next portion of the show counting boxes. 99 in the front row.

pfs08: #apollo stage is completely covered with boxes of files — being pulled out and moved from behind, gradually revealing the stage / actors

0rb: or maybe because I find the boxes compelling I’m a librarian #apollo

pcsghost: #apollo omg who knew fileboxes could be so beautiful

clairewillett: #apollo they’re taking the boxes out a few at a time. shades of the beijing opening ceremonies!

msalt: #Apollo removingb the boxes one by one. No wonder it takes 3 hours

clairewillett: #apollo ooh, starting again!

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0rb: is it because I’m a librarian that I find all those boxes so compelling? #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo there are like nine thousand cardboard boxes onstage. i sooo badly want someone to run through them and knock them all over.

carmenhill: Ithink the Tang-tini sounds better: RT @fearlessyouth: #apollo Sputnik cocktail: 1 part vodka; two parts sour grapes. LOL!

anotherpdxblog: #Apollo ok, the boxes are pretty snazzy. Didn’t see that coming.

tpancio: so far I’m really enjoying seeing the odd twists of thought the images of the play are sparking for people #apollo

msalt: os: ok, so are they going to bust thru the wall of boxes? up or down stage? or pluck them out 1 by 1, carefully? #Apollo

clairewillett: #apollo actors would call someone with a question and then repeat their words to the audience. this twittering thing is a little like this.

clairewillett: #apollo i had a friend who did a show in seattle where the entire text of the show was like people calling in live -

tknopeasnt: #Apollo My history teacher sez: “Reflexive revisionist history. Facts all true…but what’s the point?” Maybe only old news to boomers.

msalt: os: Allison, don’t think there’s a proof, it’s an experiment, poss more useful for the new show 4 an idea of how it plays #Apollo

dalylab: #Apollo it was odd watching keys clacking while the Jew is expressing horrors of the concentration camps.

clairewillett: #apollo the general consensus on the show is that there IS no general consensus. So, chew on that.

msalt: os: more than the jacket, I want passion, the myth, the pull of the moon on human bodies, what sparks our imagination #Apollo

tknopeasnt: #Apollo Stagehand buttcrack action going on. “The moon came out surprisingly early”

alisonhallett: @AGoodHusband So the point of twittering the show is to prove a point about the constant distractions of our newmedia landscape? #apollo

clairewillett: #apollo the twitterers are dissecting the play.

msalt: #Apollo os: I WANT that green jacket #Apollo

msalt: #Apollo Where’s the heart? I mean hate is OK too, you can viscerally organic hate the space program, but this seems bloodless

msalt: I hate the obviousness of white clean men = bad, girls, babies and blacks = good #Apollo

msalt: #Apollo we landed on the moon just b4 first intermission? what for next 2 hours? Boxes are impressive literally 5,000 on screen, more coming

0rb: also? that’s alotta boxes #apollo

tknopeasnt: #Apollo The set for act two looks exactly like my garage.

Act Two Intermission Conversation (work your way up from here)