Practitioner Workshop: Duncan and Claire

Noticing

(Dang, the game has changed--more and more groups are studying audiences than in the past few weeks/months. We are all acknowleding the role of the audience in understanding. The show is the impact of the piece on the audience in the context of their minds and sets of experiences. The show is in the interpretation.)

The Attempt to identify problems to the general public (alienation through raising awareness)--How does this impact people who just don't want to engage?

Claire: was on the course 9 years ago. Found it an opportunity to disprove her own theories.

6 core emotions of neurology that are recognizable across all cultures: happiness, sadness, anger, disgust, surprise, and fear.

10 things I noticed today, in 1 minute:

-new black paint on the wall outside
-fog in Swiss Cottage, but not Lewisham
-neither ATM in the tube was working
-Shannon has a similar travel history to me

(that was a minute?)

Abstraction complicates things: truth is the most relevant.

10 things I care about:
feminine equality
safety/liberty
warmth/comfort
cleanliness
freedom from vermin
personal space
good food
friends
Ben
family

odd order: edit in hindsight, not in the process--find the sudden, uncensored self

10 things I'm rebelling against:

America
Mindless entertainment
tendency to sleep all day
tendency to rant
corporatism
HFCS
chinese manufacturing takeover
travel infringement re: safety
paranoia culture
institutionalized hatred

Theatre is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an unmoveable object.

The power of pulling unpleasant information out of an audience: asking for secrets. What gives you the right to ask? Why are people complicit?
Moreover, why am I complicit?
In today's study we have been the "them" in the theatre, the recipients of the experience. The Audience. Weird.