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RATMA '01
RATMA '01
I just surfed into the DOGME '95 manifesto website, and, of course, I
wondered to myself "how could this be done for theater". Not the same
kettle of pencils, of course. Budget cuts have long forced theater back
to basics.
I wanted to throw this out to the group. What would DOGME '95 look like
for the theater?
My own take would be totally site-specific performance in which the story
is entirely based on elements already in the space -- setting, furniture,
props, people. No extra lighting. No costumes or makeup. No added sound
or other media. No genre pieces. Perhaps based on the history of the
space itself or the people who have lived in it, but entirely present. No
weapons. No violence. No "raising the stakes" to keep the director and
cast from getting bored. The audience follow the cast, or (like Charlie
Deemer's "hyperdramas") move into different spaces and experience
different scenes.
If this sounds suspiciously similar to my recent online in home theater
suggestion, it's because at one point a group of us started to put
together "family-theater" performances -- essentially trouping short
plays and scenes from classics to people's homes for the afternoon. Very
low cost. They would invite friends and neighbors. Very pre-20th Century.
(Very LA?) Well, what struck me as we were doing the first of these
things was that for the most part the people and their homes were more
interesting in many ways than the pieces we were doing *in* the homes. (I
remember one design-oriented urban couple who had a lounge room that was
entirely black and white -- with marble chessboard tile. *Entirely* black
and white. Very scary. Another place was filled with kids and pets and
color and plants and, well, life. You could do 20 plays just using the
family room and the toy chest.)
So, anyway. What would your RATMA '01 be like?
Cheers,
Cat Hebert
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