reflecting on comments

Task: how to create theatrical realities that works.

"Anónimo dijo...
Should a play be enjoyable for everyone? Can it?

If you want to know what your audience will like, then you have to study your audience and their preferences. What do they expect? What are they familiar with?

Do you want to make plays for your audience or would you rather make an audience for your plays? How can you get to this?

Roberto"

"Anónimo dijo...
The brain understands new information according to previous experiences. If you get too abstract then the brain has nothing to relate the new knowledge to, and so it just refuses to understand.

Keep it up.

Roberto"


First of all, it is nearly impossible to make a play in which someone can absolutely not relate with anything, since the brain can't actually create new things, but can only rearrange things that it already knows, from what is called memory. A human cannot imagine, even abstractly, a 4th dimension. It can be understood, but it can't be seen, imagined or drawn. It is impossible, since the brain has no information of it. What you put on a stage should work similarly then, you should put, depending on the audience, what they will be able to relate to.

Abstract thinking is then, just something that only you and yourself can relate to, and for others to relate to it you would have to put it on words that are socially interpretable, i mean, in a way that everyone can understand it. But how can you make your abstract thinking into a play that everyone can understand? it has to go beyond explaining it, it has to show it.

I will take as example the one act play we are doing. We are using many things people will relate to easily: the delivery guy, the lawyer, the handyman, etc, but we are adding a game to it, which people don't know, but as it is going to be developed and easy to catch, then they will be able to understand it. So that it is enjoyable, you can't say everything, because if you know what is going to happen next, it won't be interesting (quoting jorge wagensberg again). You have to add the unexpected.

But is making a play like this, following certains rules to entertain the public the correct way of making a play? I know we are still students and we can't really experiment, but isn't the theatre somewhere you have to experiment different things to find YOUR best way to do it? I bet every big playwrights experimented with their own way of doing theatre. Why do we give people what they expect?

A play can't be enjoyable by everyone. You can't make a play for everyone. When you do a play you have to know who the play is for, but then, why do we have to do the play for them? Why can't we do theatre for ourselves? When you put it like that, actors sound like they are just to entertain the audience... is that it? Entertaining the audience? What about making plays to entertain yourself, make plays for yourself, not for other people. can that be done?

When you are making a play, and you know the audience you are gonna have, then you make a play FOR that audience. But those are some cases, like ours, that students will be watching, most of them because they HAVE to since they have to do a play review afterwards >.>... but the point is that the play is meant for them, we can't do whatever we want. But in other cases, You can play a play for yourself, and people that want to see the play will go to see it. Therefore, my opinion of making a play is that is depends GREATLY on who is the play for, where it is gonna be staged and other circumstances.

Making a play with many limitations can be hard, unless you get really creative and implement something... like a game... and then the task makes it more fun to make, and it won't be as common for the audience, making the audience interested to find out what the game is, therefore, you should not spoil it from the beginning.

What matters most? Who the play is for? Or what the play is about? Because i guess you have to adapt the things for the audience that is going to see it, but then the play would, i repeat, be for the audience and not for you... When you make plays for yourself, would you still have an audience?