Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The Conversation After The Show
2AMt: When a theater is only open to the public for 15 minutes before and after a performance—and is otherwise closed and locked, with the public let in and, if necessary, kicked out—the question arises of how to make the performing arts a conversation, a participatory activity more articulated than active listening. Here’s a simple story of how that engagement happened, in a town of 7,000 people, in a way that I have rarely seen elsewhere.
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I think that it is vital for there to be conversation after a film, theater piece, anything. A script, and any art piece in general, was created to inform the audience of some sort of thing, all would be lost if audience members did not have the opputrunity to share opinions and insight, to inform eachother of what was gained, what was lost, and what was unnexpected. I think that's why Carnegie Mellon hosts a series of talk- backs after it's main shows. I cannot imagine a time when I wasn't buzzing with fellow theatergoing friends about what we have though of a show- even movie, it would be interesting if there was an even more open environment to converse with other theatergoers who may have been an aisle farther away from you.
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