chorus - idea

Monika Wunderer (wunderer@st1hobel.phl.univie.ac.at)
Thu, 26 Sep 1996 14:42:07 MEST

On 24 Sep 96 at 16:38, Santiago Pereson wrote:

> >the second idea which came (please hands up who exactly invented
> >this??) was to let the people who attend via the Internet be the
> >chorus. So perhaps when you watch the performance through your
> >computer click on something and make some sound on the real life
> >stages. That would be a interesting thing to know how many (active)
> >people are in the cyberaudience.
>
> i think this one is a good idea. maybe this could trigger samples
> (digital recordings) of the text in different languages (ancient
> greek!), even depending on the geographical place where the person
> is (i think this can be known from the ip adress).
>

so the point of the chorus seems to be a interesting one, I like your
idea, Santiago and I definitly have to look up Euripides *Cyclops* -
thank you Sallie for this.

we always thinking about how to "transport" the plot in the scenes!
This could be a problem when we try to work with text to much because
we do not know how the transmitting of the voice would be like

Thats why the idea of the chorus -leader came to me. So that we could have the
participants in the internet as the chourus and one actor how could
tell the ongoing of the story in some way.

do I make sense?

We are having great discussions here about what we really want to say
in and with this play.
We want to tell the story of odysseus journey. That could be easy
demonstrated by the odysseys as the only moving person.
But we also want to tell the stories that he has to go through on
this places. And I do not know till know what we could really
transport with movement only and the play with light.

I mean how would dialogs look like?

Let's try to find some concrete plots for the scenes that we could
work this out.

Mon
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