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Re: RAT: The Next Generation
Hi Cathy,
Gabriele and I and a half dozen other recent college graduates and one of
our professors started Thieves Theatre twenty years ago in Chicago.
First, "generation gaps" are always present. Advertising people know this;
that's why they produce specific ad campaigns for whatever age bracket
their target audience is. You don't sell a car to a baby boomer in the
same way you do to a generation Xer. Etc. And note all these
self-referential terms on the age bracket we use. Also how savvy all our
understandings are on the media and its manipulations. We are all more
market and media wise today than we were twenty years ago. All this does
not translate into the "Generation Gap" as much as it does into a "Cultural
Gap." The whole of our culture is different than it was in the "70's", the
"80's". Even these decade references are also a fairly recent phenomenon.
The '60's being that magic decade referring to the Generation Gap supreme.
There was a guitar sitting in the corner of every other home one went into
in the '60's and '70's. Today there is a computer but probably not a
guitar. These are not just to different instruments of communication but
two entirely different modes. The audience is present in one and mediated
in the other. We would "hang out" differently I think than this generation
does. This has to affect the way in which we deal with one another and the
world. I am not sure how. But definitely the present generation grew up
in a more mediated culture. Clues for the any generation gap, if it does
exist, I think could be found there.
Looking forward to the discussion.
--nick
At 11:18 PM 6/4/01 EDT, Cathryn616@aol.com wrote:
>Cat and I have been having an off list discussion for the past few weeks
>about the "Next Generation of Theatre" Panel that some other students and I
>will be running.
>
>I was just wondering if some of you can e-mail me your thoughts on my
>generation (people in/right out of college). Cat has brought up some very
>interesting points that we really dont feel are accurate. but, of course, we
>could be completely wrong since no one really sees themselves as they really
>are.
>
>So, I would really, really appreciate people's thoughts on this topic, as
>well as if you think there is a generational gap in the theatre--please also
>give an example, and just dont say that you think that there is one (this is
>another roadblock that we have hit; we dont think that there is a gap, but
>Cat insists that there is).
>
>Any ideas would be helpful.
>thanks!!!
>
>cathy
>
>
>
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