Sunday, April 26, 2009

Here are my reading notes guys:
Theater has ignored Aristotle in pursuit of making the theater have mechanical functions, and to minimize the appearance of human agency-wanted it to look naturalistic
Argues that media should never be involved in theater-beg to differ, ex. Corpus Christi involved media projections to make the piece more powerful, when Jesus was having flashbacks, dying, then at the end where they could slideshow all the hate crime deaths that have happened
Argues it doesn’t work because media deals with reproducing something while theater is happening right now right in front of you, this mixing of reality makes it confusing
The stage is a frame and anything distracting that frame should not be allowed because it breaks our suspension of disbelief
Once everything on the stage is in that world, it becomes a sign
Media is bad because it has no permanence

ALSO has someone turned in that sheet yet? I'm a bit worried about it

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