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



Ever since I started following the rat flow, I've been waiting to be organized and led
to what this tech permits that would've made the Dadas gaga:  careful, "send later"
additions to open add and edit in one column with debate, rehash, running alongside.
More like haute graffiti artists, who tacitly agree to add, amend, even reuse and modify
in next.   I can see graphics, sound and video added in.   It's not the craft the best of
you have hewn (or is that honed?)   And Of course every great leap
forward takes leadership and organization, painful and wo under appreciated, under
compensated, etc, etc, yet .     from my brief co-spiring with rats in iowa, and
Cat's self definition, I have every hope that your philly ritual will return to the core
of the ore of theatre and big bang us to seize the fruits and free the people, blah, blah,blah.
I am not carefully staching this missive to "send later" certain that I won't if I don't now.
come on, come on, come on,
 peggy
 
 ----- Original Message -----
From: Cat Hebert
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: RAT In support of in-home, in-class, on-line theater

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
 
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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