August 2010
3 posts
Scenario
Scene one: timid side-liner steps into the center of the box. Someone comes up to her, asking if she’d like to be a part of an improvised performance. Startled out of her insecurities around improvisation, her general skepticism about anything she hasn’t had to work brutally hard for, and her overarching commitment-phobia, she accepts.
Scene two: protagonist attends yoga class focused...
The nature of performance...
Now that the show has come to a close and I am reflecting back on our run, I keep thinking about the idea of “performing.” The performances of Storybox were different from all of our rehearsals because they added a new element to our work: an audience. The audience is obviously an essential piece of performance art; without the spectators, the art is not a performance. However, Storybox is most...
Reflection
In talk-backs after all performances of THIS IS STORYBOX, when the spect-actors were asked what they would do differently given the opportunity to play again, most said they would start out playing situations more real. Their initial impulse was often to be slightly detached, to not commit real emotions to the given circumstances because they knew it was all “pretend.” They were...