Pointing toward the real
I am reading a collection of essays about documentary theatre (mostly in the UK) edited by Alison Forsyth and Chris Megson titled Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present. The […]
Monthly Archives: June 2012
Don’t read anything about this play until you see it
Today I was informed by two people close to this research project — my regular lunch colleague Grahame R. and my research assistant Kelsey J. (both of whom are currently […]
The Polonius Test
To evaluate the authenticity of your business offering, James Gilmore and B. Joseph Pine, authors of Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want (mentioned in the previous post), suggest taking the Polonius […]
How audience participation makes the real realer
As a citizen of this postmodern moment, authenticity is something I desire. I want to be authentic and I want to surround myself with authentic objects and experiences. Contemporary philosophers […]
Why we like (fake) reality
The attraction to the real that I have observed anecdotally in audiences arises, says David Boyle, because for the last century or so we have lived in an increasingly artificial […]
Another View on Theatre Animals
This invariably happens when I am in the reading phase of a research project. I will encounter an article or chapter or book that from the library catalogue sounds like […]
Martha Henry’s ferret
The 2012 production of Cymbeline at the Stratford Festival reminds me of the last time I saw Cymbeline at the Festival. It is 2004 and I am sitting in the […]
What Wittgenstein’s Duck/Rabbit has to do with theatrical duality
On the recommendation of my colleague Grahame Renyk, I finally got around to reading “Infiction and Outfiction: The Role of Fiction in Theatrical Performance” by David Z. Saltz. (Full citation […]
Verbatim theatre: Porte Parole’s “Seeds”
Certainly a project that takes the performance of the real on stage as its primary point of departure must be interested in verbatim theatre. (Verbatim theatre refers to the practice […]
Real autobiographical objects in a glass box
Yesterday, on the suggestion of my colleague Ted Little, I visited the Centre d’Histoire de Montreal in Old Montreal. There, the section “We Are Here/Nous Sommes Ici” presents the final […]
