Sunday, August 30, 2009
Married, With Dialogue - Docudrama Team Continues Work With Refugee-Themed ‘Aftermath’
NYTimes.com: "THE 2002 play “The Exonerated,” based on interviews with people who were released from death row, won praise for depicting lives derailed by wrongful convictions."
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wow. this show seems very heavy. and extremely powerful. They way i picture it is almost no set, maybe just a table and some chairs, and the people telling their stories. The power of the messages stand strong.
Their technique for writing the show is more of a unique one, especially with the actors not having the original interviews themselves.
I would love to see this show, but i imagine that a lot of it would be extremely hard to hear.
It is an interesting artistic choice on part of the writers to self censor the "violent and horrific" material that they collected while interviewing abroad. One of the main components of this type of play writing that I find compelling is the fact that you CAN present these stories as factual and therefore their impact is greater than those of fictional characters or events. I'm curious as to the reasons behind this and their process of choosing which stories to include in the final script.
It is so refreshing to hear about innovative and timely plays being developed. I was surprised to hear that the people being interviewed were not hostile or rude to the americans. I would have expected a severely negative attitude. I also thought it was cool that they developed the script in working closely with actors. To me that would seem to really keep the script alive throughout the whole process.
This article brought Fires in the Mirror by Anna Deavere Smith to mind right away. Both plays use the idea of talking about a controversial issues from all possible sides of the spectrum. This piece however, is much more relevant to the world at large where Fires in the Mirror is mainly only speaking to a small group. Because they are speaking to such a large group this play will have more effect in general. I find it really interesting that even among the people who were completely displaced by the war there are still many different opinions of what should happen. If this piece is done well it has the potential to be one of the most important pieces of our generation.
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