Re: RATMA '01

[David Usner <usnerd@bigplanet.com>]

Does this sound a bit like the "happening" kind of "hang out theater of the
60s and 70s? Where the audience could come and watch people living in the
space on stage.

Am I making this up?

Dave

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cat Hebert" <virtualdrama@juno.com>
To: <rat-list@whirl-i-gig.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 11:09 AM
Subject: 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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