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. […]
Tag Archives: theatre
What we already knew about the invisible gorilla
From the inception of this project about Theatre of the Real, it has been clear to me that audience perception/experience is central to this phenomenon. Of course, the perception by […]
6 Questions to ask a piece of “real” theatre
… (seems unfair to call it a “play”…) 1. How do I (as an audience member) understand the real elements as real? What scenographic cues am I given to counteract […]
Documentary theatre then and now
It would be impossible to discuss reality-based theatre in Canada (what I am starting to call “documentary theatre”) without acknowledging the scholarship of Alan Filewod. His 1987 book Collective Encounters: […]
McDonald’s Canadian Olympic Ad
OK. I wasn’t planning on posting a blog today but… I am working on a summary of this research project for the SSHRC Insight Grant. (The Notice of Intent is […]
Applying Cognitive Science to Performance part 3
Some cognitive image schemas originate in sensory experience in the world. An example of a sensorimotor inflected schema is simple verticality. As humans, we are creatures with a definite up […]
Is theatre real?
I finally got my hands on a copy of Authenticity: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life by David Boyle from Robarts Library through interlibrary loan. (Thank you […]
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 […]
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 […]
