Antique Impressions: Dramatic Hook
When composing a script, you are well advised to begin with a strong dramatic hook. The intention is to have the audience hanging on every word and action. They must willingly suspend disbelief as they are immersed in the world created on stage.
Existential Friday: First Stage
Stage One : Existential Moment –
Audience exits, stage left.
Metatexual awareness seeps through
The Fourth Wall.
Note concerning text (most of the characters) – that it is of Self – it is, it breaks the illusion that it is reality – never, when the text is recognized as text.
Director’s notes to self – play begins with Audience exiting, stage left.
Note on text ( reminder about characters) – this is a vehicle – it is in motion. It breaks the illusion that it’s reality – not when the text is recognized by the characters in the audience that it is a text.
Director’s notes to self – Scene one action opens with the Game as it begins with the release of the Hearing’s findings, those left see the point of corresponding situations between the audience and the characters . Remember, like Husserl and Heidegger, Sartre distinguished ontology from metaphysics and favoured the former.
If the text is not recognized as a text :
- The fourth wall is the agreement-upon boundary between audience and performers.
- Sartre agrees with the tradition that “being” or “to be” is not a concept.
The objective is blurring the boundaries between the fictional world and the real world – the stars my destination.
I have seen the director’s notes – it opens in the action of the Game. The audience participates when the scene begins with a Hearing that releases the stage from the rest of the fictional population; the Public are symbolized by the Key. The corresponding characters respond – please refer to the stock responses of the situation. These are found between archetypes and cliches.
Empty stage waiting –
Characters exit – action –
Play commences now.
Selfielessness 2 – Motion
Selfielessness – The state of being without selfie. This second Selfieless image explores Selfielessness in a state of motion. This image recalls the poem Antigonish . The first stanza is well known.
Yesterday, upon the stair,
I met a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t there again today,
I wish, I wish he’d go away…
( See Post : Existential Friday: Daguerre Upon the Stair )
For musical accompaniment I recommend the work of violinist Evanthia Reboutsika. She was born on November 6, 1958 in Kato Ahaia, Greece. She has collaborated with many important Greek composers and singers .
Textured Text: Bird in Blue
For this Tuesday, a Textured Text composition that incorporates a Faux Cyanotype, the text was created from a combination of old dictionary pages and a page from an very old school book that introduced young students to the tales of Shakespeare.
“Tis almost morning. I would have thee gone,
And yet no farther than a wanton’s bird,
That lets it hop a little from his hand,
Like a poor prisoner in his twisted gyves,
And with a silken thread plucks it back again,
So loving-jealous of his liberty.”
Romeo And Juliet Act 2, scene 2, 176–185
For an interesting article on real Cyanotypes see, Salt prints and Cyanotype; a short history of the printing process .
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