the not so immersive theater
THIS IS A THREAD ABOUT THE POINTS OF CONNECTION
STATUS: NOT LINKABLE EXCERPT SHOWING IN: THE CREATIVE ENERGY EXCHANGE POST
TO BE CONTINUED AND LINKED
Ever since I can remember, the search for THE POINTS OF CONNECTION has been the strongest motivation for my work. My first theater explorations with El Teatro Xquis back in Caracas experimented with everything from bringing audience on to the stage to staging some sort of an immersive theater experience. In either setting, audience might have participated in the experience but they never stopped from being the “receivers” in this one-way connection. When living in San Francisco I attended many “improv” shows but I found that even if the actors were “feeding” from whatever the audience was throwing at them … they might as well been reading the lines from a teleprompter. The audience might have felt this “illusion” of being part of the experience but … did they really “connect” to the actors or whatever “content” was being “exposed” to them?
