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These text usually have something going on "behind-the-scenes." They have a sense of responding to stimuli that isn't there in the material world, but is there in spirit.
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Individual Texts
Individual Texts
One would be tempted to call it "Six Characters Open A Box," but actual story underneath it all bites at the bit. One-Act.
A revue show of authority figures up against a beyond-his-years seventh grader. Full-length.
A reunion that is split up, literally. Short play.
Short play.
A one-person short play. Thought meets stage direction.
A Note on the Absurd and the Nonsensical
A Note on the Absurd and the Nonsensical
There is a great overlap between goofy skit comedy and truly absurd depictions on stage and screen. If the reading or performance or filming of something absurd is not accompanied with behind-the-scenes curiosity and peeling back the layers of what is underneath, then the work will turn out to be no more than a goofy comedy skit with stock characters and a cheap structure comprised of safe bits and jokes.
The heart of all of these pieces lies in the behind-the-scenes. They were each originally conceived as an exercise to some question about the limits of theatre, space, and the actor's relationship to audience, to self, and to each other. Only through careful determination of form and content were the bits entered into the text, so as to play with the audience's humor muscles and disorient them. Through this disorientation, if strongly achieved, the audience could actually be provoked into a state of deeper reflection in which they see beyond the material bits playing out in front of them.
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