Abstract pantomime

Wednesday... sounds really far away, with all the play going on, each day is an eternity. Let's try to remember. We went to i forgot where to see this dance of these people from israel doing some stuff and well..yeah. I thought it was great, in the sense that they got talent, but nevertheless i didn't like it that much. The lights were boring... the only interesting fact about them was the blue and red effect they gave on the floor. music was... play back...uhmm yeah... hmm. the dance was good. the set design was not. maybe it was. i didn't like it

I didn't quite understand the idea of their dance, maybe the second one, that they were gay and wanted the world to accept them or something like that? *cough cough* sounds to me like their were bullied alot *cough cough* well anyways, i almost fell asleep.. actually i did for about 10 minutes :) when there was no music. uuh 3 follow spots would had made it more interesting... or at least change the lights. but bleh... it was only dance, music and ... laughing strangely.

But well... moving on

the philosopher Nietzsche once talked about how the opposition of 2 things cause tragedy. And almost all plays i watch seem to have this factor of opposition in them. I think i am bored of this fact, it is too predictable. You see the same patters of events happen. There is a beginning, a plot, most of the time good and evil, and they clash... one wins. It gets boring.

Abstract stuff. no objective, no opposition. no final point. just and idea. A thought that can make the brain get shocked, realize something. A play doesn't have to have a beginning and a ending. Can it avoid the plot? i don't know. maybe. How can you show and idea on a stage? Well.. you make the actors act as ideas, not as characters. You give them personalities from the idea of the abstract thought you want to represent. Just like Pantomime. Pantomime in greek means "We can act anything" and so they did. they acted as feelings, they why can't we act as an abstract thought? You can give it the characteristic you want, but obviously you would have to give it certain things for people to understand what it is.

I wanted to do something like this for the one act play, act as abstract thoughts, and not as characters in a predictable plot. But i don't know if we 5 will want to do something like that... or even understand the idea i want to try to transmit. Maybe the audience won't be prepared for something like that, but who cares? You told me to make an audience for my plays, not a play for my audience right? :)

The idea could still have opposition, which is i think the most important element on a play, it causes the suspense, the interesting factor in the play, so the audience want to keep watching, it will shock them... it will be something their minds could had never predicted.

As Jorge Wagensberg said in his book "Si la naturaleza es la respuesta, ¿Cual era la pregunta?" an explanation of what causes the entertainment on a human mind in a couple of phrases sequenced like this:
"La mente se nutre de cambio. El aburrimiento es por desnutricion de cambio. Se puede nutrir la mente de cambio de dos modos: el modo tipo cine (inmovil en un entorno movil) o el modo tipo viaje (movil por un entorno inmovil"

What i get from this is that the entertainment of the mind comes from change, therefore, to make the audience entertained, we have to provide change, and one of the ways is to have opposition, which clash together. But when it's the same old story and you can predict it, then the change becomes less and less entertaining. But if you make something completely unpredictable, with a meaning but no beginning and end, then people won't be able to tell what comes next, and will have their minds filled with changes all the time. Abstract thoughts it what drives the human mind to progress, you have to imagine the future in order to make predictions or hypothesis of what will happen. If they don't turn out to be this way, the human brain will be forced to change its thought completely, and will have to work again everything, because it wasn't as he thought it would be. That, for me, is entertaining. Good examples could be El interruptor or Sin titulo. That's why i liked those plays. But i know it is not as easy as it sounds, it is a lot more complex that this, but i would love to try, because its something new, its a change. Extremes are never good, so i wonder, How much change can a human brain take in a short period of time? Is there a point where it just breaks down and turns into a complete nonsense? How can you know how much change is enough? How abstract can something be and still be understandable by the human mind?

Theatre seems a really interesting and useful way to find out more about the human mind. I found that fascinating.