Edges.
Kate Burnett.
Edges - the line where seating ends and performance begins.
- Is an audience necessary?
- Relationship from audience to performer in a space?
- 'Clearing' - everything else clears to the side - for somebody to take procession of the space.
- Designated space - something that has a name - people thought about storytelling going on there.
- Found space - something that comes with its own history.
Designated space - might feel comfortable there
- Nerve racking - not being there before.
> Bad seats
> Awkward
> Not fitting in
Found space - Adventure about it
> Rise taking - Night
> Exciting - Day
- Might not be that good
- What type of people will be there?
Participation - Panto - crossing the divide
- intellectual, emotional participation
Immersive Theatre - huge participation & relationship
- space invaded! Your space, and the space you are in.
18th Century playhouse > Charles II
Elizabethan & Jacobean
^ insight people politically > huge gathering points
Spactical - 2012 London Olympics
- Attempt to tell you a story
Street Performers - Little things in daily life
- Start to question what is really
- nobody wants you to be just an spectator.
Q: How do people use the word 'theatrical'?
Mickel Freedmen (?) modern Art exhabition
-Engaging with work
'Too Theatrical' - His criticism
Could mean - its too obvious
- Larger than life
- Its asking you to engage with it
- Its asking you to be involved
- Not real art - Art should just be there, that's it, no more involvement in needed.
Q: How much do you want the audience to feel comfortable?
Q: How much does the audience need to be involved/ viewed?
Q: How to make the audience feel involved?
Q: How to make the audience feel like it's happening around them?
Look at...
-Robert Wilson
-John Cage
