Theatre as a window to culture

before starting to talk about the play, i want to say something that came into my mind while thinking about the thursday we stayed to plan the one-act play. When we were told to say 1 thing that highlighted our "characters", like the 1 thing we had to do to act as the other one or something like that, we all said something bad about everyone else... and i didn't stoped to think about it until recently. We just laughed and went on talking, and didn't realised how that told us how we actually thought of the others. Is that how we really think of each other? Or we just weren't taking it seriously?

We are a team, and our final projects reside on how well we work as a team, if we think like this of each other, i don't think our one-act play is gonna come out well. We have to change this, but not fake it, "fake it till we make it" is not the answer.


Well then... going on to the play.
In my last blog i said that going to see a play could be like going too see yourself on the everyday life from another perspective. And that is one of the reasons why people feel sympathy and identified with the protagonist, which is mostly a human for this reason i suppose, and therefore 1 of the reasons the feudal lord was the protagonist and not the demons on the school play.

But moving on... now i realised that the festival in Paucartambo is not a play, but a performance. And therefore it works differently than a normal play, therefore i discard my hypothesis of feeling identified, and will have to work on a new one.

The school play (the one of the merchants... :D) is, we could say, a window to see another culture, because we are seeing japan through theatre. As i said in one of my previous blogs:
"Theatre seems a really interesting and useful way to find out more about the human mind. I found that fascinating."
And the mind varies a lot with each culture and society. So we could see much more than just a theatre tradition, we were looking at a whole culture on stage, which most people don't realize. And we are going to see the same in paucartambo, since its not just a festival, but its a whole culture performing. It is very interesting to analyse a culture through its theatre, although it's not gonna be precise, you have to gather other information to compare, and then see how much the performance resembles the culture. How is the culture of Paucartambo shown in the festival? and to what extent is it stretched and modified?

P.S. that will be my research question for Paucartambo