RE: RAT Which Idea Now?

["Doug Rosson" <dnr9449@garnet.acns.fsu.edu>]

OK, here goes.

When I spoke of a "circle of comfort," I was talking about an audience's
logical expectations of the theatre.  If we continue to work within these
expectations the audience may feel "comfortable," and simply check out -
disengage with the implications of the work.

When I was talking about Annex Cooks, the creation of dining-room
comfortability was outside the sensibility of audience expectation.  A short
background of the show might be helpful: We created a full working kitchen
on the Annex stage and added monitors to simulate the idea of a live TV
cooking show (this was all pre-Emril).  Within this known construct we added
dancers, storytellers, commercial breaks, audience participation (they could
ask questions and give insight) and at the end we fed the audience.  The
theatre even smelled good!  At all times the we made the audience
"uncomfortable" by creating an atmosphere which shattered their
preconceptions - but we did it by making the theatre a comfortable,
interactive kitchen.

Brief, but I hope it answers your question.

Doug

-----Original Message-----
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Sent:	Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:10 AM
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Subject:	Re: RAT Which Idea Now?

Interesting... and while I agree with what you've said, I'm curious as to
how
you balance these notions of "comfort"....  not as a general question, but
in
your own personal work....

Thanks to whomever started this thread.... :)

tim
funkopolis

In a message dated 10/25/00 9:55:48 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
dnr9449@garnet.acns.fsu.edu writes:

<< a place where the audience felt as
 comfortable as in their own dining room.  >>

<<the more I must stretch to
create something outside everyone's circle of comfort. >>