Live Long and Prosper

Reading Ashley's blog prompt was very informative and thorough. And I guess I'm with y'all on being a little late on my post. My apologies for this.
Anyway answering the first question  in relation to the time and pace of twitter dramas I was not as aware that these twitter dramas were considered theatre up until we began discussing them in class. The reality of this interesting logic of theatre is the purpose to explain a simple situation in a few words creating a dramatic theatrical piece. Using the hashtags as a form of entertainment is a unique way of presenting theatre in a modern way. Now-a-days a lot of people in the theatre department and in the theatre lifestyle period have been trying and asking, "how can we reach out the general public to being back theatre?" This way of quick simple twitter dramas could be a wonderful start to theatre making a huge comeback with the public. On Friday in class we had a cool experiment where we were asked to create our own twitter dramas and then the presenters performed them in different areas of the room allowing the audience to choose which performance they would like to walk up and see.
The next step further in developing this twitter dramas would be to communicate through these to show the advanced everyday life. Bringing the people what they want to see should be the main objective to intrigue them into wanting to see more. For most of these posts I've mentioned theatre being an old past time, however by creating these unique and awesome forms of theatre it can be helpful towards gaining back a larger more excitable audience. I feel like a next step further would be like the artist who create the powerful pieces of work that are preserved and honored have a big influence on todays viewers. http://birdgunblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/banksy-orleans-museum-of-art.html  Check out this link to see a very nice piece of artwork.

To Infinity & Beyond

Putting on my director’s hat J I’m thinking back to when I was younger and trying to make little 10 minute episodes of a parody film. Thinking about the space we were challenged with creating different focuses from flexible and variable. It is interesting because the spaces we used were transformed. We staged these performances at my house; either in the backyard or the den. However these plays were mainly juvenile but they were the start of my interests in directing and figuring out how theatre works. If I would have the opportunity to revamp these parodies I would at least try and find better places to perform. The space would have to be large enough to create wide panel shots and also enough room for my actors to explore the space without walking into my den’s coffee table haha. Perhaps taking this to the mall to have space and character would allow the perfect image I have been looking for. The audience would be the customers and people all around who would view this as the form of entertainment. This could be more site-specific theatre and would maybe diminish from the quality of the performance. Not every customer would stop to view the performance. Also I do not know how much of an impact it would have. I would also be concerned about how my actors feel about this space for the performance.

For Kantor’s quote I feel he has some point about centuries old practice making theatre an old past time. Yes there is a place and a time for everything. I expect it to be that Theatre can blossom into a wonderful an absolutely form of entertainment in the right time and place. Making it more accessible for the general public will engage more people into coming to the theatre. For example; prices! If we made the prices on theatre more affordable it would be easier to recommend people to spend a night or afternoon out at the theatre; especially if the theatre or space which the performance is being performed in easy to get to transportation wise. 

Everything is a Form of Art

         Performance art is a wonderful way of expression that we have all noticed has become a past time. Which we are sad to see it decrease into other forms of art. With the easy access of internet now and how prices are cheap to see movies or join Netflix it's made the performance in theatre drop drastically. This easy access method has resorted to a lost art that melts away into these other forms.
An example of exactly how things are getting complicated are the use of electronics during performances. In the LSU theatre department we like to record our performances for the archives. This should be the only copy ever recorded for documentation and educational purposes. However, on Broadway we see bootleg versions of live performances pop up on the internet all the time. People would rather watch something that is frowned up greatly than spend hundreds of dollars on this once in a life time opportunity to sit an experience a piece of live theatre. I feel that there must be a way to bring back the enjoyment of being able to make going to see the live performance a seamlessly easy and affordable way.

I find that the media or recreation of events are always "imagined memories" that may have over exaggerated things. We never really actually see a true event happening in the film or theatre because we were not actually there when it happened. I believe that even with the extensive research or the multiple interviews to try and recreate an event still may have it's flaws. This has an impact on the theatre and media. People believe a lot more of the documentary films because they think that the events actually taking place during this media is really happening. This cannot be true because even the documentary films are scripted to seem perfect and flawless in their efforts to capture live actions. Another thing about the influence of the media is that these things can be falsely presented and then people end up believing the wrong thing instead of the truth.