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Fly By Night (was Re: RAT Response to Online Theater Comments Re. Cat Hebert)
We have been having great fun in the nation's birthplace with our monthly
24 hour play series Fly By Night. Especially now that we are site-specific
outdoors in Olde City. The audience holds flashlights on the performers
after brief instructions from the director. As a performer it was
interesting to see all these little round light spots out there. The
actor's maxim of "finding the light" has the further and literal meaning
here of also "finding your audience." Immediate vicinity is Christ Church
graveyard housing such notables as Ben Franklin and Betsy Ross.
"Theater should be performed one night and one night only, on a
graveyard." Jean Genet
At 09:50 AM 5/16/01 -0700, Audie McCall wrote:
>--- vz <dexteriously@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > --Is not one of the essential qualities of theatre
> > the fact that it is
> > perishable? It is here and now, and then it is
> > gone. IMHO, this is a
> > good thing.
> >
> > Wally Z
>
>
>Agreed, agreed, agreed.
>
>In this way, theatre-- as opposed to so many art
>forms--is exactly like life: instantaneously
>transitory: unarchivable.
>
>This is our birthright/curse, and more should be said
>about it.
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