tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523052989559606758.post3951214787810296678..comments2023-06-05T08:05:37.161-04:00Comments on The CoLab Theatre: Capital TThe Collaborative Process Theatre Companyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12370469019895665864noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-523052989559606758.post-24898361750516642852011-05-13T23:50:47.938-04:002011-05-13T23:50:47.938-04:00Truth in art, in theatre in particular, is a trick...Truth in art, in theatre in particular, is a tricky thing. I think another big part of it is suspension of disbelief. If a situation is believable, we'll go along with the story, but as you say as soon as I start to think "why would anyone date her" I'm out of it, the spell is broken, people are just up on stage reciting lines. And I think it's gotten harder, because as far as suspension of disbelief goes, cinema does it with a lot less effort. Actually that's not true, because doing cinema well is super hard, but from a technical standpoint if a series of images are correctly built into a montage we have a much easier time accepting it. And as a result, the pressure on theatre to be truthful is that much greater, because if I'm not getting a nice satisfying dose of truth why didn't I see a movie instead? Audiences want theatre today to be really truly moving, and if it's not, they aren't likely to come back. So in that sense, I think theatre is evolving as we find new ways as artists to compete with Youtube, because the truth is all we've got to get them to come back.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10180306822810358584noreply@blogger.com