Saturday, April 4, 2009

Live Interactive Reactionary Theatre

I have wanted to create theatre with a number of interested folk which could change the way people think about themselves and the world they live in. The theatre could involve the following groups of people:
  1. Scientists involved in the study of climate change, perhaps geographers and climatologists.
  2. Scientists who understand about society and change, perhaps psychologists and sociologists.
  3. Playwrights who can turn scientific information into theatre.
  4. Directors who can work quickly on an in-coming script, using it to prepare a play ready to be staged.
  5. Actors to play the roles in the drama.
  6. Technicians or crew instrumental in getting the play on air.
  7. People familiar with You Tube and other internet technology.
  8. Programmers able to create a site for interactive environmental theatre on the web.
  9. Audience, consiting of people surfing the web.
The show would involve a cycle of the following events.
  1. A play is written.
  2. The play is directed and a piece of theatre is created.
  3. The play is staged through the internet and captured by an audience of online viewers.
  4. The viewers react to the play as they watch it by invoking some kind of electronic feedback which is sent to a panel of "experts", which includes scientists of many fields. This feedback is analysed and the resulting analysis is sent to the playwright to write the next scene or act for the play.
  5. The playwright writes the next part of the play using the results of the analysis.
  6. When this part of the play is completed it is then the directors turns create drama out of it.
  7. The actors rehearse and prepare to send the play live onto the internet via camera.
  8. This part of the play is then shown accross the internet and recieves feedback which is again analysed and used to create more theatre.
  9. And so the cycle continues until a visible change in audiences reaction is recorded.

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