"Thinking about a show" vs. "directing a show"... (web and internet)
Concept and Post Mortem... [Questions for the Public: students, audience, cyber folks]
2006: Total Directing
The Broken Window: Beckett's Dramatic Perspective by Jane Alison Hale; Purdue University Press, 1987 : In Beckett's drama, on the other hand, the only point of view available to the dramatist and the spectators is as partial as that of the characters; we move along with them in the fragmented time and space that compose their universe, and while we may see them from a different perspective than that from which they see themselves, our vision is no more reliable nor stable than theirs.For we are observing people drifting purposelessly through the same undefinable, formless time and space that we ourselves inhabit; in our age, there exist no others. [17-18]
[ Bakhtin? "Dostoevsky's Poetics" ]
... When limits are vague and constantly eroding, "here" and "there" and "now" and "then" become confused; continual movement, or "déplacement," which is the primary characteristic of Beckett's (and our) conception of space and time, impedes perception, whose prerequisite is stability. [18] POMO?
Directing Space and Directing Time in Stagematrix.
Unities: Beckett has indeed broken radically with the classical unities in order to create images of a new kind of time and space in his drama.His plays, however, have often been described as classical in their own right.
* In Beckett audience is on stage. On the set. (Should the curtain in the house be up? Let them feel uncomfortable. Or to raise the courtain at the end -- you are on stage. After the final words "Lets go.") [from Book of Spectator]
And the house lights are up -- actors "do not move" (script).
Canned applause?
Curtain call... how? As no curtain call at all!
Something is missing... Strong directorial choices are a must!
Godot and vtheatre (virtual theatre)? Ideal for Internet2? (my paper -- research directory)
* Scenes (and monologues) for directing and acting classes (list, comments for students).
Virtual 3 Sisters
Rising moon. Evening into night: clowds (video) -- how slow?
Is this screen against the play (story)?
Montage in it's principle (Kuleshev Effect) is "absurd" (unrelated shots combined by our need for logic). "Collage" in postmodern.
Eisenstein writes about "neutrality" of shots. How accidental is association?
"Chaos Theory" and pomo mind (cinema mentality = film century). POV topics?
Is it "audience oriented" piece? Almost "readers theatre"?
"Beckett in Alaska" (paper?)
Moons...
NEXT:
"Web-produced shows" (Bergman, Wild Strawberries), the shows I will never stage. "Theatre of One"...
Beckett & Internet: not only about the presence of B. and "About B." on the web, but the nature of performance/act of webbing/surfing. "Waiting for Godot" -- search. Chaos -- WWW.
Something I didn't talk in vTheatre [ new ] (PSI 2001); cyber performance [ ... ] "Beckett-like" structure of behaviour in virtual theatre.
vTheatre = web as a new performance medium?
