Reflecting "El interruptor"

The stimulus of this play was how the media, and technology is driving people away from each other instead of getting them closer. There was a scene, in the play, where 2 "ladies" were talking about the idea of only 1 transmission tower that said only 1 version of everything.... this made me reflect about some things i already had wondering around my mind.

People each day are getting lazier and more easily convinced by media. People are starting to stop critical thinking and have ideas for themselves. Superior powers are trying to get eternal control and stop young generations from critical thinking. I am glad to be one of the few to be able to reason and oppose to the social pressure this ideas summon on our minds.

There is a quote, from the movie Zeitgeist, i like very much, and i am willing to share it with you:
"The last thing the men behind the curtain want is a conscious informed public capable of critical thinking. Which is why a continually fraudulent zeitgeist is output via religion, the mass media, and the educational system. They seek to keep you in a distracted, naive bubble. And they are doing a damn good job of it."


Lets reflect about this quote for a minute. This paragraph is telling us we are being controlled, by superior powers. Our supposed free will, is not as free as i thought it was, our freedom, is being made what they want it to be, and we still believe it is our choice. They know how to play with human minds, and they are doing it well, most people have fallen in the trap, but there a few left, a few people who have uncovered the truth, sadly, this minority is not enough to make a change. 


People with power don't want you to realise what they are really doing, they keep you in a distracted world, full of publicity, malls, videogames, new shops, fast food, work, religion, trips, beaches, clubs, love etc. People think that is the real world, people think they got their own choice and they are leaving life as they feel like it. SNAP OUT OF IT. You are just being lied, lied all your life, and you still don't know. 


Another quote from the same movie i quoted before is very direct:
"The more you educate yourself the more you understand where things come from the more obvious things become and you begin to see lies everywhere. You have to know the truth and seek the truth and the truth will set you free."


Sadly, people are too busy with other things in their lives they don't know this, they dont search for it, they think they know what is true and what is not and they won't see the real truth. They think the media is telling the truth, they think that television, radios, newspapers are telling the truth. How blind can they be to not notice this are being controlled by superior powers to, changed, rearrenged and modified to fit what they want you to know


"Terrorist attack against the twin towers, 2 airplanes hit the buildings which fall and kill thousands of people"
And people believe it, people just accept it and they don't do any more research about it. "IT IS TRUE" WHY? "BECAUSE THE MEDIA SAYS SO" 


Why don't they write in the newspaper:
"USA government plans attack against it's own twin towers killing thousands of innocent civilians to have an excuse to declare war." There have been studies. It is known as a fact that those buildings could have stay standing after a hit from an airplane. Videos show how the towers fall directly in freefall towards the ground, they don't fall to a side, this is impossible. People inside towers who survived claim to have first heard an explosion from beneath and 2 seconds after the plane crash on top. This between many other facts support this theory. But people don't know, they just believe what the media told them. FOOLS!


This is only 1 example of the thousands of lies that appear in the media, not as big as that one, but they do.


People reckon they know. People believe they are being reliably informed. People THINK everything is true and they are free. People don't know they are just puppets from superior powers, simple toys which fullfil the will of the ambisciousness of people in control. 


After making my point, and going back to the play, it represents more or less the same things. Public figure: how men in power want us to see them, but we have no idea of what happens behind the curtain. How media just spams us with mostly insignificant news about the world to keep us distracted. Media is not helping Society come together as a whole and make people informed. Media is polluting our minds, making us naive, ignorant, lazy, stupid, mediocre, and worst of all, FOOLS. We are fools that don't know how we are lied to, we are fools in a false world in where we are supposed to be free. we are fools in the way that we don't know what is really happening, and we think we do.


It is US, the people, the commoners, the fools, who have to see the truth, who have to know what is really happening. We are not free, and we are doomed to be not for a long time, maybe forever. This period of control have been here for thousands of years, since religion, which is one of the biggest factors of mindless control. But that is something to talk about other day, since it's too off topic. 


Will there ever be a time where lies wont go as truths around the world, were facts will be unvailed and the men behind the curtains will come out? Is the curtain, dividing fools and powers every going to disappear? or is it just a fact of life? 


I am just happy to know that i am being lied to, although it is frustrating, i know i can't rely on the media, i know its mostly a lie, and i am happy for that. I just wish most of the people also knew.

This week we did not have many classes, in fact only 1, because of Holy week, but we do have a big homework for when we come back, our first whole draft of the Kabuki essay, Power points and mind-map. I am still working on finishing my essay, although i don't have much more to deal with, i hope i can finish it tomorrow morning, and then with all the research i have for my topic (relationship between music and acting) i dont think making the powerpoint and mind-map will be too difficult, as i already have all the information i need and i have analysed it well on the making of my essay.

For the master class of Kabuki we are still really late, and i hope that for when we are finished with the essays, we can concentrate much more on the mater class of Kabuki.

We know kabuki and we are researching it for what it is today, but Kabuki has more than 400 years of history, and i wonder how different it was when it started. Was it a similar idea that what is it today? Or has it changed completely? Has it changed for the better or for the worse?

EL interruptor

We watched this play today ( monday) and i really like the stimulus in which the play was done, and i felt like doing a review about it.

The play was vey dynamic and delivered a very concrete message in various ways. I found this play funny, but serious at the same time, cause it did have some slow and more direct parts, but sometimes it just changed radically to a funny segment. Never the less, there was a huge balance between this 2 aspects in the play.

Lights had a different function in this play, they were not done mainly to light the stage, but as a prop, which was used as to represent the audience. When the lights came on, the actors reacted to us and changed their actions. This was a really interesting technique.

Voices in the play changed instantaneously, which i have to admit looks really hard, because every voice have to be on it's own and can't be mixed with voices from other characters, and that is not as easy as it may sound.

Movements were never ceased, that is one think i liked about this play. Speed varied all the time, and volume, and levels and everything, but movements never ceased.

This type of stage could be a Open type. Since actors were firstly sitting next to us, and there was not much separation between audience and actors, and it was really good designed for 2 actors to take all space.

After the play finished, we were allowed to ask questions. I did one that i think the director did not understand so he just answered "exactly", or maybe he did, i dont know... He told us the Stimulus for this play was how technology wasn't actually making everyone closer, but separating everyone from a social community. And i thought this idea was a really good one to develop and to think about.

Still i wonder, What is better? Doing many characters or just 1? If you do many characters, can you reach the same level for each one that you would if you were only doing one? Is it best to do just 1 and really well or is it best to do many characters? But all at the same level of mastery as if you would be doing 1?

Is this weeks physical work class, we did something different, we followed an exercise which made us imagine we are made up of many little plugs, and we could unplug ourselfs, and then we could replug, but randomly like popcorn bursting.  I think that this was done so that we could feel each part of our body separately and also so that we could give energy to different parts of our body.  I really could no imagine the feeling of the popcorn bursting but i did try to resemble it.

The second part of the exercise consisted of us, walking with our eyes closed, imagining we were standing in the wall of a skycrapper and we were falling due to gravity. With our eyes closed this was much easier than when we had to open our eyes, since i could not imagine the situation any longer, but i could stay with the feeling more or less.

I wonder to what extreme an actor should take this feeling. Should he get to the point that he/she is in the real situation? Or should he/she be also aware that it is a stage and there is an audience? What would be the equilibrium between reality and imagination?

Last class of physical work we worked on our own stimulus from the video.  These let us try different and new things with an easier idea of what to do. we even tried combining our personal projects in the exercise of passing the energy, and i reckon that was useful and fun, but then we divided to work alone. At first i did not know what to do, and was completely lost in terms of imagination, but then i decided to try to start slow, and I ideas could flow a little bit easier, but I still need to improve a lot my physical work.

My research in kabuki is NOT GOING WELL. I need to speed up my process because im really behind. My research is not as deep as i had to go by now, and i have no much time left, since the deadline for everything is due this friday. From what i learned until now, i know that instrument were really, really simple but continously used during whole plays, so it is an essential part of Kabuki theatre.
If you add modern music to a kabuki play, would it lose its essence, or will it sound good?

The last week i been working on my kabuki research. And i still haven't finished. Not like i thought i would so soon, but it is a bigger task that what i thought it would be and i found out i have to work harder, as i'm not so advanced in my research as i expected to be by this time. I'm finding new things about kabuki as i do my research and each time i find kabuki theatre more entertaining and interesting.

Concerning the school play, we have finished what is the body training and we will be mving on the the voice. The voice in Kabuki doesnt look really easy but i will give it my best. I am in charge of the music, and researching a little about it, although it seems that the music cnsists of purely percussion, string insturmnets and air instruments, i know there must be more to know about it  and im trying to figure that out.

On friday, we worked on physical work, and i tried to do my plan of counter impulses, and equilibrium of energy. I found out i need more imagination since i ran out of ideas really fast. Maybe thinking of ideas before would be better to be prepared. I wonder is you can have more equilibrium while having a lot of air in your lungs or would it be better if you breath out? i will try that next class