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| Posted by: ntjvy 09:36 am EST 03/13/21 | |
| In reply to: My fear - aleck 08:00 am EST 03/13/21 | |
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| I've seen a few people express this concern. I'm wondering though, are you worried that work like this would be superficial? Are you concerned because you're going to be looking for escapism not a rehash of the past year? Are you feeling propriety over the experience? Do you think there are no good stories worth telling that evolve with the pandemic as a back drop? Don't think we've had enough time to reflect on the experience and turn it into art? What is you rationale for not wanting to see are about the pandemic? | |
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| Posted by: Ann 09:53 am EST 03/13/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My fear - ntjvy 09:36 am EST 03/13/21 | |
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| I haven't had enough time to reflect because we're still living it. I don't think plays about living in lockdown will appeal to me, at least not in my lucid lifetime. | |
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| Posted by: ryhog 10:18 am EST 03/13/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My fear - Ann 09:53 am EST 03/13/21 | |
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| I agree. I think that in due course we will have elements of the pandemic explored in plays but I think that to appeal they will need to be about "something" (a notion that was true pre-covid). I have not been interested in all these features about how so-and-so has spent the pandemic. I also think that we have had enormous developments during this same period that are more likely to prompt dramatic appeal. | |
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| Last Edit: Chromolume 01:49 pm EST 03/13/21 | |
| Posted by: Chromolume 01:48 pm EST 03/13/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My fear - ryhog 10:18 am EST 03/13/21 | |
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| We've already had any number of online plays (and even some musicals and cabarets) that have dealt with issues surrounding the pandemic, and often using Zoom not just as a presentation platform but as part of the realism of the pieces themselves, etc. I think that once we're able to go back to the theatre for real, people won't want to be reminded of all that quite so fast, and in fact will want to escape all that. That being said, conversely, I also tend to wonder if the use of video in live performance (the Van Hove West Side Story, for instance) won't be seen quite as controversially as it was pre-pandemic. It may be that artists will actually see more opportunities and value in using video in conjunction with live performance, now that we've been forced to use that medium in new ways. Just as in real life, I doubt that Zoom will go away given that people have now found practical uses for it. Just that we won't want to use it for everything. |
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| re: My fear | |
| Posted by: ryhog 04:38 pm EST 03/13/21 | |
| In reply to: re: My fear - Chromolume 01:48 pm EST 03/13/21 | |
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| I agree about both video and Zoom as a subset or whatever of it, and any technology for that matter. To me, the introduction of video into live performance is not a new or controversial thing at all. The Wooster Group has been playing around with live and recorded video since before I started going down to see their work (and that's a long long time ago). It has slowly entered the mainstream, with greater or lesser resistance along the way, but I think you are right that the pandemic has likely made it more palatable to some. (To an extent it is a generational resistance I think, and in that sense the centrality of zoom especially as a lifeline for many older generations this past year is going to have a lasting effect. I think.) | |
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