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Re: RAT In support of in-home, in-class, on-line theater
I tend to agree with the "heart" part -- or better, the heart, mind, soul
yogatic tradition. That can be conveyed through the tech. From Yugoslavia
there were some live, online webcam performances (monologues) set against the
background of a destroyed city. The sense of reality / immediacy was
enormously powerful.
[Side story. The first "montage" you see before many TV shows was first
introduced with the Six Million Dollar Man. That montage approach was created by
a team of psychics specifically brought in by the studio to help audiences
accommodate to the bionic stuff.]
What theater must do is to *truly* accept globalization. Theater has always
sampled different traditions, and (sometimes) respected lives that have very
different surroundings and pathways, but now the rules are changing.
And ... people in theater *must* understand that technical mediation isn't
considered cold and distant by entire generations of folks in the U.S. It *is*
their form of communication.
Cheers,
Cat Hebert
I
> Maybe it's time that theater got back to the joy of
storytelling. And we
> have just the hi-tech tools to help us
do it.
depends on what you think theatre is. I still think
it's to appease the gods
on some level.
this hi tech - clever talk is
too clever for me. more heart please.
-jessica