On the other hand with durationals, these type of plays use up more of your time but you have the choice of choosing whether to stay for a long time or a short time. The plays that were presented in put into play the reality of simple situations involving confessional and question and answer scenarios. The way that durationals reinforce the reality effect is how you can relate to the reality of the content that the durationals that we read about present. These plays expand the range of what you can fit in a six hours and give the opportunity to explore those details either in an audience member's perspective and an actor's perspective. Therefore, you are given more time to absorb more things that you may have may felt that were overwhelming or things from your memory that were there, but you just missed. This set plays make you more of an observer that a looker, which is an opportunity to take in more.
So the next step, would be for me is teleportation. Now let the performance come to us in a space similar to twitter drama but through teleportation, but that is technology a little ways down. . Another thought is holograms. If holograms could look like real people then yeah.
Teleportation!? Sounds like an interesting take on time and pace. But going off your idea about holograms, makes me think of robots. Specifically the Japanese robots that are made to be as life like as possible. So perhaps Twitter plays could be teleported to the robots and be performed any where. I also agree with your view of time, in that it is precious but at the same time we want to linger in the moments we choose. Durationals really put our societies view of time to the test; do we want to linger, or do we have more important things to do?
ReplyDeleteAlthough I find this sudden technological advancement if theatre to be very cool, it's also pretty terrifying. Like how much longer will there be a need for actual human actors? Will there be no hope or even need for me? The hologram of Tupac was actually scarily real looking. Who's to say that's not a direct direction that theatre is headed to? All artificial and holographic. Scary.
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