“When life gives you lemons, squirt someone in the eye.” ― Cathy Guisewite

My title kind of relates to how I feel about this uncanny theatre. It can be the blossom of something great just like life handing you lemons however when something turns terribly wrong it can be the lemon juice squirting in your eye.
With the incredibly creepy things with how theatre is able to create the unimaginable is mind blowing. Especially the lesson where Dr. Fletcher showed us those videos about the robots. I went a researched a little bit more about the increasing technology for robots and found some interesting things. The man who created the segway also was the creator of the first animatronic prosthetic arm. This increase of knowledge to be able to create useful tools for those who truly need it. It was really cool to see these arms and legs that are controlled by technology that can detect signals from the brain to move muscles and fingers and toes. However this technology can get out of hand when actual robots are created and how a human being cannot detect the differences between if that robot is human. This theory is also scary because it's like technology is taking over the world! Surrogates  is a movie from 2009 that shows a glimpse into a very creepy future. It's practically uncanny to even think of something like this.
In performance terms it's like I first said the uncanny theatre can bring amazing unthinkable things to reality. Or at least a form of imitated reality because we are unsure if these things that are thought up can be made to be true. Like the animation movies are a drawn picture from our imagination. Performing this type of theatre is difficult but an experience.
This experience is incredibly valuable for us to experiment and continue to grow in our knowledge to see how these uncanny ideas can help towards the future. Just like the animatronic prosthetics  they can help us have the abilities to make dreams come true.

The Prime of Ms. Theatre

This day in age theatre is in an everlasting evolving change. There are so many different types and forms between simple and complex theatre that are known to us and not known. The question of how to create a new type of theatre to encourage younger individuals about the passion and visions behind the process has been asked and repeated to me a lot this semester. In Dr. Walsh's Senior Capstone class we also had a day full of discussion about this topic. Being able to spread the word out about the enriching and wonders of theatre has been a struggle. There is a dying age of theatre patrons who we relied on for this great performing art form. One way to bring back the joy and enthusiasm of theatre is to start young. In my opinions I would start making theatre a safe place where children can learn and see things that encourages them in the correct ways. As a child, I wanted to take acting classes; but because of the incredibly high fees of an acting coach or agent my parents were turned away from the idea and encouraged me to do another extra curricular activity. Now that was back in the day, today in this present state I feel like we should reach out and have classes offered at schools or day care centers where it would be easier for the parents to allow the children to stay in a safe place at a reasonable time. Also with the fees I would recommend making it an affordable payment that is able to cover funds for small children's plays but not break the wallets of the parents. Also looking for sponsors that could help donate to educate these children through theatre would be a way growing business firms could figure out a way to promote their business through the use of theatre. It's a win win situation in my head. Only way to know if it works is to start it soon. After college who knows, I may be starting up a new movement to bring back theatre to its prime.

  The oppressed is a huge topic. Maybe theatre can be the answer. In Dr. Feltcher's class my group went and performed an Invisible Theatre experiment to see how many people would get involved or react to the scene and conversation to which we performed. Our scene consisted out of scripting a story of sexual harassment in which our objective was to see how many people took sides of agreement or disagreement. It was a unanimous debate because most of the audience agreed that sexual harassment is wrong. However we brought up other situations asking if the audience members would get involved if they witnessed a situation of sexual harassment. Most people said they would wait until after the situation died down. Some said it's a social awareness feeling to not bother or comment on other people's business. But let me just ask; what if you could have changed or stopped the situation? That effect is called the bystander effect which I am a firm believer of because often times just one person speaking up can cause others to join in a movement. And even though we don't want to be rude and in other people's personal business; it is up to us as a society to look around every once and a while and improve on what we can. Being the bystander in a difficult situation could change someone's life. It's kind of like what Maggie said in her prompt. She asked why didn't you stop the gang? It was because of weapons. Well, maybe taking a chance to make the noble move to step out and stop the gang could have worked too. We may never know because it's not just our thoughts we have to worry about it's also the thoughts of others. The reaction to a curve ball in theatre. Just like in our experiment we curved our script around the audiences interjections to create the scene presented.

Proud to be an American - I dislike Politics

This particular post is difficult for me to relate to. I really do not like politics however I understand the importance of my opinion. Here in my hometown Baton Rouge we have a lot of debates going on around us. One particular is the issue between the creation of St. George parish becoming their own district limits. Another issue that is coming up this Tuesday is the election of the new Senate representative of Louisiana. I tried looking up some research to share with all of you but hey this election is everywhere. I see all the signs along the side of the road, adds on websites, commercials, those stupid informational calls that annoy me. All the information is everywhere.This election is important because it is up to us to choose who will represent us as a state to consider our opinions to make the right choices for us.
Ughh, as for forming a protest or some form of activism I don't think I would. There are already enough signs and forms of paid advertisement enough. What would a protest do? Everyone is entitled to their own opinions I wouldn't ask them to choose a side or to vote for whomever they want. I'm extremely neutral when it comes to these types of things. Speaking of; I just watched an  irritating commercial as I write this about Mary Landrieu. Even though I saw her commercial it has no effect to influence me to choose her to represent us.
Media and internet are so far advanced now it has made it easier to send out messages to influence others. That should be such a privilege to have to be able to reach out to more people than imaginable. Although, with media other negative forms of influence falsifying information for these elections.
I actually cannot wait for these elections to be over so that I will not have to see all the publicity madness going on for this occasion.   Again I am neutral to the whole ordeal.