“How do you get your student to pay attention?” she said. “You do something out of the ordinary.”
Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Black-Owned Philly Bookstore Creates Civic Intervention As Afrofuturist Theater
“How do you get your student to pay attention?” she said. “You do something out of the ordinary.”
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This is a phenomenal example of the power of theatre. These sisters are creating valuable and important conversation that needs to exist while also entertaining their audience. The fact that they are using their audience members is so important because it creates a natural conversation rather than a rehearsed conversation. This means that the meaning of the event that the sisters are trying to convey comes more naturally and more powerfully because the audience is coming to the realization themselves. If the same thing was done with actors the message might still be successfully delivered to the audience, but it would not resonate nearly as powerfully because it was simply presented to them. By immersing the audience they are making them think about their own lives, not just about society as a whole. Each person who participates is forced to come face to face with some aspect of their own lives. Because of this the experience that they have in this theatre are not like any other and will stick with them for a significant amount of time. The theatre has always been a place of phenomenal political statement and revolt and this method is particularly impactful.
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