Hey guys!
I thought a sample proposal of a possible theatrical program might help you design or come up with your own. Feel free to add your own suggestion to this, and to your other classmates ideas as they add them.
Type of Theatrical Engagement:
Staged and Image
Continuum of behaviors:
Physically violent relationship, rape, emotionally violent relationship, harassment
Methods of Reaching spectators/spectator population:
Personal testament/ally population
Proposal:
Setting: A quiet space that students often frequent but do not socialize in, for example wilder main or perhaps the inner atrium on the first level of the library
Scenario:
(STAGED) Testimonials of male bodied individuals who identify with the male gender are collected and digitally recorded. Testimonials range on a variety of topics, but generally come back to two main points: the knowledge of male and gendered based violence against women, the pain that this gendered violence causes to men who are allies against violence, focusing on their close bond with women in their lives. Narratives are broken abruptly, and do not follow a narrative flow. Audience members are encouraged to to hear the voices as one large testimonial.
(IMAGE)
At scheduled intervals, actors or dancers (as the action is silent) move with the ambient sound of the testimonials, responding to the words on a moment-by-moment basis, in metaphoric and exaggerated ways. They gradually recede and return, allowing the testimonial to become an accepted and expected sound in the space.
I thought a sample proposal of a possible theatrical program might help you design or come up with your own. Feel free to add your own suggestion to this, and to your other classmates ideas as they add them.
Type of Theatrical Engagement:
Staged and Image
Continuum of behaviors:
Physically violent relationship, rape, emotionally violent relationship, harassment
Methods of Reaching spectators/spectator population:
Personal testament/ally population
Proposal:
Setting: A quiet space that students often frequent but do not socialize in, for example wilder main or perhaps the inner atrium on the first level of the library
Scenario:
(STAGED) Testimonials of male bodied individuals who identify with the male gender are collected and digitally recorded. Testimonials range on a variety of topics, but generally come back to two main points: the knowledge of male and gendered based violence against women, the pain that this gendered violence causes to men who are allies against violence, focusing on their close bond with women in their lives. Narratives are broken abruptly, and do not follow a narrative flow. Audience members are encouraged to to hear the voices as one large testimonial.
(IMAGE)
At scheduled intervals, actors or dancers (as the action is silent) move with the ambient sound of the testimonials, responding to the words on a moment-by-moment basis, in metaphoric and exaggerated ways. They gradually recede and return, allowing the testimonial to become an accepted and expected sound in the space.
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