Where is real?
As part of an opening exercise in a recent dramatic theory class, my students were asked to respond with coloured Sharpies to a variety of prompts scattered on chart paper […]
Tag Archives: audience
Dress warmly and wear sensible shoes
I’ve been doing a lot of immersive theatre lately. (Fun, but hard on the limbic system. That is a thought for another post.) What has struck me particularly is the […]
The Uncanny and the Real
In her book Culture and the Real, Catherine Belsey suggests that the source of uncanny unease in horror films is the incursion of patently non-real/supernatural objects into the real world. […]
How to be a gentleman
Yesterday I finally caught up with Rebecca Northan’s Blind Date. First created in 2007, the show has toured extensively in Canada, the US and the UK. The premise of the […]
The Pleasures of Opaque Remediation
Remediation, a term coined by Jay David Bolter and Richard Grusin in their book of the same title (1999), refers to “the representation of one medium in another medium” (45). Theatrical […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Antigone et les carres rouges at the FTA
“Who is Antigone for you today?” This is the central question posed by the company MOTUS of Rimini, Italy producers of Alexis, Una Tragedia Greca, presented in Montreal at the […]
Upsurges of the Real: a performance research blog 