Thursday, March 5, 2009

Sorry!

I also agree with the idea of this line between invisible and guerrilla theater. Even the invisible theater, though, needs to be something that catches the attention of people even though they don't realize it's theater. I'm not sure if a conversation in the library will catch people's attention, because of what we talked about in class and also because even if people choose to eavesdrop only a few people in the near vicinity will hear it. I agree with David that if we could find an effective way to pull off guerrilla theater, that would be good. If it's a topic we really care about and we want to be sure people hear what we have to say, we'll have to be a bit more overt. I'm wary of this type of theater because it's hard to get right but I think I still like the idea of invisible theater transforming into guerrilla theater.

I guess that leaves the hard part, namely how to pull off something like this without turning people off. Especially if it's repeated, we don't want people to catch on and start avoiding us if they don't like it. If it's something engaging and interesting, though, having a loop could be good reinforcement, kind of like, "these issues aren't going away, so neither are we". I think for getting that point across, repeating the exact same thing would be most effective, but this of course is open to debate. Maybe building intensity throughout the week would work too.

I like the idea of the hidden, ghostly testimonies a LOT. We'd just need to find an effective way to set it up and make sure no one stole our speakers :P. And, as David said, we'd have to choose what content we wanted.

My opinion on the shirts is, because there are so many statistics out there, some greater than and some less than the 1 in 4 statistic, there would be no way to represent all of them and as such we need to pick one and run with it if we want a visual representation. I feel like the 1 in 4 one is the most well-known, too, and people would pick up on it because they've probably seen the statistic before.

I guess I'm done for now.See you at 3:30!

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