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katoagogo
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Posted: Thu Mar 6th, 2008 05:49 pm |
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For my application to the playwrights bootcamp with Paula Vogel that I was lucky enough to be selected for -- we had to include a short, pithy, theater manifesto. I thought Id share mine, and encourage others to compose one to share or tack on their refridgerator as they see fit. What's your manifesto?
--kato
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Theater is a generous act.
We go to the theater to fall in love. We fall in love with the play; fall in love with the work; fall in love with the company.
It is important to respect commitment over talent. I can work with commitment. Talent without commitment quickly becomes destructive and a drain on the ensemble.
Plays are not perfect entities; they are flawed, the actors are flawed, the audience is flawed, or late, or coughing, or who knows what. And still, we make theater.
The progeny of American Realism is film, not theater. Current dramaturgy owes more to the American Musical Form than the American Realists.
Theater is a house of magnificence and eloquence and joyful giving.Last edited on Thu Mar 6th, 2008 05:51 pm by katoagogo
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Basso
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Posted: Thu Mar 6th, 2008 08:21 pm |
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In a society where colouring inside the lines in considered "moral," theatre allows one to free the spirit of this fetter.
In a world that feels less of itself, but wants more, theatre reconnects "the happening" with "the feeling."
In a fish-bowl, where the water has run stagnant, theatre refreshes, then expands the space to infinity.
In a quandary, where questions lead to sure answers, which leads to irresolution, which leads to heartbreak, theatre judges not.
In a barren, co-mingled with stasis, theatre offers hope that god is dead, but waits upon the morrow.
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Proboscisbunny
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Posted: Sat Mar 8th, 2008 03:42 pm |
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For me...
Theatre is about communication.
I stand on my soap box and, with the help of the director and actors and designers, reach out to the audience until we are all in a bubble-bath of ideas, knowledge and thought.
We wash away the every day.
And take a piece home with us.
Forever changed.
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Posted: Sat Mar 8th, 2008 04:12 pm |
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Theatre is a temple--and I am It's slave.
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Nate88
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 01:38 am |
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Theatre...a home for better thinkers in art.
a way for thinkers to form ideas into movement
expression?
deviance?
theatre is the coffee, that tastes like soap
it should no longer be home for the money making scum
but for the art loving hopefuls...
and hopefuls, with a love of art
"and if you ask me why i am so bitter
il ask you how you go so vain" - so precious, so quiet.
I strongly believe in a self reflecting theatre that rids rockstars, celebs, soap stars from pantos and musicals...
what ever happened to Grotowski's lab in Poland?
Cabaret Voltaire?
the Berliner Ensemble?
dont give people the distorted view of theatre being Wicked, or Hamlet...
give them Cruelty, give the Disdain, give them provocative work like Jarry in his days, Berkoff (before the rubbish movies) and Kane, and Beckett, and dont give into the "Deadly"
We are not strapped to the consumerism of theatre as artists...
its Post-Modern world for a reason...?
find the reason...
go create.
(Coherence = Complacency)
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 06:18 pm |
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Edd, the prize goes to you for being the pithiest, and saying the most.
Nate88, that was more a rant than a manifesto; which is perhaps the perfect segue. From manifesto, to rant, to murder, but the second two adhering to the manifesto, thus giving them rightness, and perhaps even respectability.
Theatre...a home for better thinkers in art.
a way for thinkers to form ideas into movement
expression?
deviance?
Not the best thinkers, and what about music and such? As for movements, aren't there enough of those already, and haven't most of them fallen by the way side? Tthinking, I've never thought much of it. Too much thinking going on and not enough doing. Well now, deviance, is that the purview of theatre, a by-product of it, or a magnet for it? What about simple stories, well told? First, important to have something to say from the heart. Why castigate love and starry skies in such poor light, unless one knows what it is to beg for such a thing.
(Coherence = Complacency)
Coherence = Complacency? I'm sure I would rather watch something coherent than incoherent. You might tell your girlfriend that she has nice hooters as a way of proposing marriage, but she may feel disinclined to wrap her sensibilities around such incongruity. ;)
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Nate88
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 06:28 pm |
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probley right...
it was last and i was pissed off (at every little thing) while writing it...
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Maybe il think about it next time instead of just spilling shit off.
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though it did provoke a response...
got what i wanted ;)
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Posted: Tue Mar 11th, 2008 10:59 pm |
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Now you've provoked two responses. :D
When I am feeling likewise pissed, I usually give in to an "I hate people." Astonishingly, I don't include myself in this group. Must be the Alien DNA.
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