Re: RAT In support of in-home, in-class, on-line theater

[Allison Narver <anarver@yahoo.com>]

I feel that theater is in part defined by the audience
and performers being able to breathe the same air at
the same time.
I'm not very interested in watching somebody's
exploits online.  
Allison
--- Cat Hebert <virtualdrama@juno.com> wrote:
> Gleason,
> It's certainly true that the moment-to-moment
> audience / performer
> interaction [what I tend to call "flow"]  is missing
> from this sort of
> online performance -- unless decent 2-way
> teleconferencing options can be
> introduced. I'm calling it "theater" because part of
> the purpose is to
> get people connected with / interested in doing
> theater in their homes
> for family and friends. (My assumption is that the
> camera will be fixed
> and folks will perform in front of it -- essentially
> a theater
> experience.)  Hmmm. Wonder if the Dogme 95 folks
> would be interested :)
> 
> Cheers,
> Cat Hebert
> 
> ---------------
> On Mon, 14 May 2001 18:5:0 -0700 "Gleason  Bauer"
> <gleaball@earthlink.net> writes:
> Theatre needs a live audience present in order to be
> theatre.  If there
> is no audience present it becomes something else.  
> 
> I'm not opposed to what you suggest, but I wouldn't
> call it theatre...
> 
> G in LA


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