Once upon a time, a theatre company in New Brunswick was performing David Mamet카지노 게임 컬렉션s polarizing two-person play Oleanna.
During the final scene 카지노 게임 컬렉션 where a female student who has publicly accused her male professor of sexual harassment says to him, 카지노 게임 컬렉션Don카지노 게임 컬렉션t call your wife 카지노 게임 컬렉션baby카지노 게임 컬렉션카지노 게임 컬렉션 카지노 게임 컬렉션 a male spectator leapt from his seat and yelled a sentiment that could be sanitized and translated to 카지노 게임 컬렉션Go away, you bad woman.카지노 게임 컬렉션
The play was fictional, and in that sense not real, so why lash out with such anger?
The issues raised in Mamet카지노 게임 컬렉션s play are real, and divisive, so could the male spectator카지노 게임 컬렉션s reaction testify to the then-current state of the debate over gender and power 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and to the man카지노 게임 컬렉션s perhaps inchoate awareness that his side, so to speak, was losing the argument? If that was the 카지노 게임 컬렉션real카지노 게임 컬렉션 that mattered that night, what else could theatre teach us about how people, in society at large, perceive what is 카지노 게임 컬렉션real카지노 게임 컬렉션?
Kelsey Jacobson, Assistant Professor in the and co-founding director of the at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s, is studying such questions, and now she카지노 게임 컬렉션s published a book, Real-ish: Audiences, Feeling, and the Production of Realness in Contemporary Performance.
Dr. Jacobson wasn카지노 게임 컬렉션t in New Brunswick that night, but she카지노 게임 컬렉션s seen 카지노 게임 컬렉션many people have really strong responses to shows in anger and outrage, and in absolute adoration and bliss. I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve watched people get up and leave theatre spaces, and I카지노 게임 컬렉션ve watched people who want to linger and talk to me for 45 minutes after the show, because they loved it so much.카지노 게임 컬렉션
She believes such visceral reactions, and theatre카지노 게임 컬렉션s place as an ancient and universal art, make the stage a unique source of insights about the world at large.
카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s this potent, powerful art form that continues to exist and persist, because it does do something, it does have impact. It does potentially change things,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s thousands of years old. It카지노 게임 컬렉션s this global practice where we put ourselves on stage to see ourselves, to reflect, to think about what we카지노 게임 컬렉션re doing as a society. We have to think about how it카지노 게임 컬렉션s not just what카지노 게임 컬렉션s on stage, it카지노 게임 컬렉션s also audiences 카지노 게임 컬렉션 how we perceive the audience, audience rules, audience etiquette, audience expectations. That카지노 게임 컬렉션s also a reflection of where we are, and who we are.카지노 게임 컬렉션
In the age of 카지노 게임 컬렉션post-truth카지노 게임 컬렉션 and fake news, she writes, 카지노 게임 컬렉션the central question of this book seems critically important: What feels real to contemporary audiences? The tenuousness of the perceptual border between what is real and what is fake has been laid bare,카지노 게임 컬렉션 and 카지노 게임 컬렉션what is perceived to be real is an increasingly contentious, dangerous, and difficult determination.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Alongside these trends has been a rise in 카지노 게임 컬렉션theatre of the real,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says, with more documentary, more words of real people, more stages set in sites specific to real events, and more 카지노 게임 컬렉션real카지노 게임 컬렉션 stories.
카지노 게임 컬렉션If theatre is conventionally about this fictive performance, then inserting these elements of reality seems provocative,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says. 카지노 게임 컬렉션So, then I started to think, what does this mean? How are audiences receiving this? 카지노 게임 컬렉션 We카지노 게임 컬렉션re provoking a kind of religiousness, this feeling of real, that I think maps onto some things in broader society pretty provocatively.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Dr. Jacobson is not alone in seeing this broader revelatory value in theatre.
카지노 게임 컬렉션We카지노 게임 컬렉션re living in an age when our value systems are increasingly fracturing along lines of competing truths, and in which our communities are growing ever more divided around very different core beliefs,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Kirsty Sedgman, a lecturer at the 카지노게임사이트 of Bristol in the United Kingdom, who researches theatre audiences and cultural experience. 카지노 게임 컬렉션How, then, can we collectively figure out what카지노 게임 컬렉션s really true or truly real? Real-ish uses theatre audiences as a kind of laboratory for interrogating this question.카지노 게임 컬렉션
"It came down so much to the feeling of real.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Dr. Jacobson is compelled by questions such as who is heard, and in what contexts? What are the limits of 카지노 게임 컬렉션pure democracy카지노 게임 컬렉션 when 카지노 게임 컬렉션we think everyone has a voice, but some voices are going to be weighted more heavily than others?카지노 게임 컬렉션
Theatre could speak to how people decide what to believe in the real, wider world, especially positions 카지노 게임 컬렉션that maybe seem totally nonsensical카지노 게임 컬렉션 to others.
카지노 게임 컬렉션How do we go to the theatre and have this real response to this clearly fake thing? I think there카지노 게임 컬렉션s something in that that can help us understand how a sense of realness is produced 카지노 게임 컬렉션 or if not realness, then real-ish.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Dr. Jacobson was born in Calgary. She took part in theatre in high school, including a role in Agatha Christie카지노 게임 컬렉션s The Witness for the Prosecution. She earned her BA at Queen카지노 게임 컬렉션s in drama, an MA in theatre and performance at Queen Mary 카지노게임사이트 of London, England, and her PhD at the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto, where her research 카지노 게임 컬렉션considered audience perception and location of realness onstage in contemporary Canadian performance.카지노 게임 컬렉션
While in London, she had an internship at Shakespeare카지노 게임 컬렉션s Globe, the recreation of the 카지노 게임 컬렉션real카지노 게임 컬렉션 theatre, where one of her tasks was interviewing audience members about their experiences.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I was really interested in psychology, and also interested in drama and English, so I카지노 게임 컬렉션d be taking a neurophysiology course and a puppetry course at the same time. I started to realize there was a really interesting overlap, specifically in audiences and spectatorship.카지노 게임 컬렉션
In Real-ish, she recounts her experiences as an audience member of participatory theatre, where she has 카지노 게임 컬렉션confessed my secrets late at night over the phone, slow-danced with a stranger, painted a huge canvas, sung an improvised song, been held, fed, caressed, cuddled, handcuffed, and even once undressed, let myself be blindfolded more times than feels appropriate, walked 카지노 게임 컬렉션 and walked, and walked 카지노 게임 컬렉션 through entire neighbourhoods, historic trails, huge warehouses, and tiny corridors.카지노 게임 컬렉션
She adds, 카지노 게임 컬렉션I have a nearly endless list of things I have done for theatre.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Her research included 70 interviews with theatre audience members. Her questions included, 카지노 게임 컬렉션What did you find real about this performance, and is realness important to you as an audience member?카지노 게임 컬렉션
She says she was naive at the outset. 카지노 게임 컬렉션I felt intuitively that realness was somehow definable. In the early stages of my research, I asked audience members to attempt to communicate to me a definition of realness, though I myself struggled to pin a description to it,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she writes.
She adds later in an interview, 카지노 게임 컬렉션It came down so much to the feeling of real. There was a sense of realness being produced in the space and time of performance through this kind of immediate, intimate, local experience that audiences kept bringing up as real. It isn카지노 게임 컬렉션t exactly truthful or accurate or factual, it was the experience or the feeling. It couldn카지노 게임 컬렉션t be pinned down to one thing, and audience members had very different ideas about what was real.카지노 게임 컬렉션
She mentions the play TomorrowLoveTM, a show that is shaped each time by audience choices, as an example of the difficulties of even classifying what is real.
카지노 게임 컬렉션I do not think it카지노 게임 컬렉션s a stretch to say that TomorrowLoveTM generates a real effect, and that that real effect is itself a political and social outcome,카지노 게임 컬렉션 she says.
카지노 게임 컬렉션It카지노 게임 컬렉션s not just, 카지노 게임 컬렉션We can카지노 게임 컬렉션t just say this is real and this is fake.카지노 게임 컬렉션 There are circulations of feelings of realness that move amongst and through us as a society, and we need to do a better job at investigating not just 카지노 게임 컬렉션is this real?카지노 게임 컬렉션 or 카지노 게임 컬렉션is this not real?카지노 게임 컬렉션 Why is it perceived as real? How did this become real? Why is it real for these people, and to what end?카지노 게임 컬렉션
Dr. Jacobson카지노 게임 컬렉션s questions are a worthy inquest into what카지노 게임 컬렉션s pulling at the seams of civil society, say others familiar with her research.
카지노 게임 컬렉션Her trust in theatre to teach us about the real world goes far beyond debates of what may or may not be real,카지노 게임 컬렉션 says Professor Kathleen Gallagher, director of the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies at the 카지노게임사이트 of Toronto. 카지노 게임 컬렉션Her account of theatre카지노 게임 컬렉션s ways invites us to step back from the prevailing questions and preoccupations to ask deeper, better questions of our troubled and divided world.카지노 게임 컬렉션
Real v. Representational
For Real-ish, Kelsey Jacobson studied audiences at plays that 카지노 게임 컬렉션blur any neat division between the real and the representational: they present real-world issues, times, spaces, affects, and sensations within, amongst, or alongside the fictional.카지노 게임 컬렉션
TITLE: Good Fences
CREATOR: Downstage Creation Ensemble
LOCATION: Downstage Theatre Company, Calgary, Alta.
Jacobson: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Audiences hear a discussion about Alberta카지노 게임 컬렉션s real-world reliance on oil staged on a highly theatrical, representational set.카지노 게임 컬렉션
THE CRITICS SAID: 카지노 게임 컬렉션[U]nderneath the tension of the relationship between oil and gas and agriculture, or pipelines and environmentalists 카지노 게임 컬렉션 or urban theatre companies trying to tell the story of rural Albertans 카지노 게임 컬렉션 there are people, who are all complex and have contradictory impulses that make them hard to pigeonhole.카지노 게임 컬렉션 -
TITLE: An Enemy of the People
CREATOR: Henrik Ibsen
LOCATION: Tarragon Theatre, Toronto
Jacobson: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Audience members participate in a staged debate that [includes] both real-world political discussion and fictional storyline.카지노 게임 컬렉션
THE CRITICS SAID: 카지노 게임 컬렉션This drama about a principled man who insists on telling an inconvenient truth 카지노 게임 컬렉션 possibly at the expense of his town카지노 게임 컬렉션s economy and his own livelihood 카지노 게임 컬렉션 speaks directly to audiences regardless of its historical trappings.카지노 게임 컬렉션 - torontoist.com
TITLE: The Trinity Pageant
CREATOR: Donna Butt and Rick Boland
LOCATION: Rising Tide Theatre, Trinity, Nfld.
Jacobson: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Audiences learn about Newfoundland카지노 게임 컬렉션s real historic buildings through imagined tales.카지노 게임 컬렉션
THE CRITICS SAID: 카지노 게임 컬렉션The plays present original works that, by design, give the audience insight into critical events in the history of Newfoundland, both past and within living memory, that greatly inform the residents카지노 게임 컬렉션 lives and their culture.카지노 게임 컬렉션 - A TripAdvisor user
TITLE: TomorrowLoveTM
CREATOR: Rosamund Small
LOCATION: Outside the March Theatre, Toronto
Jacobson: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Audiences engage with very real emotions and relationship building while they watch entirely fictional, futuristic stories.카지노 게임 컬렉션
THE CRITICS SAID: 카지노 게임 컬렉션Mix-and-match is the order of the day in terms of gender and who카지노 게임 컬렉션s playing which roles, determined as the show moves on.카지노 게임 컬렉션 -
