What I think is awesome about this process of creating a piece of theatre through the communities and interviews is that although we cannot control what our interviewee says, we can control what of his/her speech actually makes it into the created piece. Of course we will use what is the funniest, most poignant, what makes our interviewee look/sound the best, etc., but that decision is ultimately up to us. As Peter Parker's uncle would say, "With great power comes great responsibility." It is our responsibility to use the information given us to accurately represent our storytellers, and at the same time, tell our own story. Based on what we have created in class so far, I think we are on the right track. We are certainly not going to paint anyone in a bad light, and if we use the text that we have gathered, I don’t think there is any way that we actually could. All of our interviews are on “our side,” right? I mean, we don’t have any interviews from those who would be considered “the man” or perhaps the CEO of Big Sweeties Sugar Burgers.
In terms of what we have been devising vs. the information we have received from our interviews, I think we can go further with integrating the two mediums. Also, we seem to be really comfortable when devising montages that outline the realms we are journeying through, but our weaknesses seem to be incorporating dialogue that creates a scene. Perhaps this is where we can do more with the interviews. Do you think there is a way to maybe combine and blend 2, 3, or even 4 interview transcriptions and create scene? We’ll have to make up some lines here and there, but do we have enough to do this?
I agree Jake. It makes me sad that nothing was used from my first interview with Chris. I definitely learned a lot about the sports world from Chris and included that information in the improving of the realms, but still, would love to use some of his words to create dialogue in the actual play. There is just a really big difference in how we think we should word things and how a member of the community actually did word it and I would love to do some more work and exploring through all of our transcriptions to see what we can make of them. Don't get me wrong, I think we have done great work and I am very happy with what we have right now, but I also think we can find more room to include more direct dialogue from people in the community.
ReplyDelete"Do you think there is a way to maybe combine and blend 2, 3, or even 4 interview transcriptions and create scene?"
ReplyDeleteDefinitely, I think this is probably the best way to go that'll both line up with the goals of our class as well as create some real believable dialogue. In writing that rough Success&Failure realm, almost everything Winner, Loser and Guide say are derived from a combination of 4 of my interviews. We would have to tweak some lines, add stuff in and if we couldn't use it word for word, we can at least rephrase the main ideas to make it work in the situation.