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MySA.com: Stage: "'We are still here.' That reminder, woven into the revival-like opening of 'Uprooted: The Katrina Project,' says a lot about the ideas shaping the piece."
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I always think its interesting to create a nonfiction piece in theatre...more so when the event that the show is based on occurred within the past view years.. in a way i think it almost is too soon...it isnt right in my opinion to de-validate the event in this manner...the people need time to heal..."we are still here" they say...its way to soon o ell the story in this manner on the stage...
I agree with Lydia about it being too soon to perform this piece, however I can see where it would be a success. People like to hear about problems, and as we see in the article about bereavement plays, they are curious about the unknown. Especially with this being a non-fiction piece, it will be even more compelling for those who weren't directly affected. I think that by having an uplifting ending, the play could end up coming off as inspirational which will allow people to more readily accept it. I could go both ways about this piece, I'm just not sure...
Last year I was at the south eastern theatre conference participating in the one act festivals. Then there was a show called Project Katrina. These were students from New Orleans who had been affected by Katrina doing a piece of theatre that was extremely close to them. I thought that this piece was was too soon and I also thing that doing one now is too soon. Something that has affected so many people need time to heal. Let things settle and be able to get more of a perspective on it. Also you can't look at the work for the theatrical quality of it, you are looking more towards the sadness of what happened and not look beyond what is being talked about.
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I always think its interesting to create a nonfiction piece in theatre...more so when the event that the show is based on occurred within the past view years.. in a way i think it almost is too soon...it isnt right in my opinion to de-validate the event in this manner...the people need time to heal..."we are still here" they say...its way to soon o ell the story in this manner on the stage...
I agree with Lydia about it being too soon to perform this piece, however I can see where it would be a success. People like to hear about problems, and as we see in the article about bereavement plays, they are curious about the unknown. Especially with this being a non-fiction piece, it will be even more compelling for those who weren't directly affected. I think that by having an uplifting ending, the play could end up coming off as inspirational which will allow people to more readily accept it. I could go both ways about this piece, I'm just not sure...
Last year I was at the south eastern theatre conference participating in the one act festivals. Then there was a show called Project Katrina. These were students from New Orleans who had been affected by Katrina doing a piece of theatre that was extremely close to them. I thought that this piece was was too soon and I also thing that doing one now is too soon. Something that has affected so many people need time to heal. Let things settle and be able to get more of a perspective on it. Also you can't look at the work for the theatrical quality of it, you are looking more towards the sadness of what happened and not look beyond what is being talked about.
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