Post by Melanie Rashbrooke on Jan 19, 2009 16:30:52 GMT
Here are all of the sessions from the Disgruntled and Devoted at Southwark Playhouse (03.12.08).
This will allow you to continue discussions online in between D&D events and also join sessions which you could not attend. If you were unable to attend the last D&D monthly event you can see what topics were raised and, if you choose, add to the discussions. If you have any notes to accompany your session please feel free to put these up here. Also if you called the session it would be great if you could indicate this so other members know who you are.
Each session has it's own thread in the forum. The links below form a quick contents page so you can find your session with ease.
Happy posting.
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CONTENTS SESSION 1:
1. Intimacy: google/facebooking - our desire for real or fake intimacy is getting greater or smaller?
2. Have theatre makers become too concerned with their own experience over that of the audience?
3. What can we learn from other European countries such as families with all ages seeing Carlos Santos at the National Theatre Barcelona?
4. Process not product - how can we encourage this?
5. Is London the right platform for long-term process and ensemble creation? My performers are starving.
6. 6 o'clock news or a 7.30 performance? What's better?
7. Let's go back to basics: good stories, great emotional acting!
8. What place does generosity have in theatre? And can you be too generous?
9. How do theatre practitioners show value?
10. 'Now' means different things to different people. Should we cater for the mainstream or stick to what's personal to us?
11. To be more relevant/responsive to now, does it need to take on in practice the agendas of revolution?
SESSION 2
1. Is 'now' about a kind of feeling you get from the show or a topic/i...
2. The language of now. Does swearing reduce or enhance the power of today's theatre/play?
3. Pick an age - Imagine you are it - Now: 5, 15, 39 + 3/4...91. You're commissioned to make a show (with lots of money). What do you make?
4. In a visual culture do you need words to make a play?
5. How do commercial concerns affect our ability to be truly responsive?
6. What does the public want 'now'? Escapism or realism?
7. Does theatre have to be topical to be relevant?
8. Has the funding system killed the 'Now'?
9. Does theatre need to talk about politics and current affairs to be relevant or just people?
10. Do the diners see the shows and if so do they like them (does this matter)?
11. How can we slow down?
This will allow you to continue discussions online in between D&D events and also join sessions which you could not attend. If you were unable to attend the last D&D monthly event you can see what topics were raised and, if you choose, add to the discussions. If you have any notes to accompany your session please feel free to put these up here. Also if you called the session it would be great if you could indicate this so other members know who you are.
Each session has it's own thread in the forum. The links below form a quick contents page so you can find your session with ease.
Happy posting.
-----------------------------------------------------------
CONTENTS SESSION 1:
1. Intimacy: google/facebooking - our desire for real or fake intimacy is getting greater or smaller?
2. Have theatre makers become too concerned with their own experience over that of the audience?
3. What can we learn from other European countries such as families with all ages seeing Carlos Santos at the National Theatre Barcelona?
4. Process not product - how can we encourage this?
5. Is London the right platform for long-term process and ensemble creation? My performers are starving.
6. 6 o'clock news or a 7.30 performance? What's better?
7. Let's go back to basics: good stories, great emotional acting!
8. What place does generosity have in theatre? And can you be too generous?
9. How do theatre practitioners show value?
10. 'Now' means different things to different people. Should we cater for the mainstream or stick to what's personal to us?
11. To be more relevant/responsive to now, does it need to take on in practice the agendas of revolution?
SESSION 2
1. Is 'now' about a kind of feeling you get from the show or a topic/i...
2. The language of now. Does swearing reduce or enhance the power of today's theatre/play?
3. Pick an age - Imagine you are it - Now: 5, 15, 39 + 3/4...91. You're commissioned to make a show (with lots of money). What do you make?
4. In a visual culture do you need words to make a play?
5. How do commercial concerns affect our ability to be truly responsive?
6. What does the public want 'now'? Escapism or realism?
7. Does theatre have to be topical to be relevant?
8. Has the funding system killed the 'Now'?
9. Does theatre need to talk about politics and current affairs to be relevant or just people?
10. Do the diners see the shows and if so do they like them (does this matter)?
11. How can we slow down?