I had an idea today, how we are going to continue with Kerek a káposzta (Round Cabbage), our performance with Anikó.
On one hand I would like to continue performing it, because, it was succesful, we had audience, and people keep asking, when are we going to show it again.
But on the other hand, if we would do it the same way, as we used to a year ago, it wouldn't be inspiring for me.
I remember in the last times, when I used to play with LEGO, I was only interested in creating some buildings, little towns maybe, but I didn't really play with them afterwards. I feel sometimes similar interest with the performances, which I am directing. The process of creation is interesting, and some performances (the first ones) are interesting, but than, when we are ready, a new subject needs to take away my interest.
You know, I would like to find forms and ways of making theatre, when something is not just an imitation on stage, but it really happens.
I think I am still far from this, but I'm on the way.
If something really happens, we really do something. Otherwise it is only talking about something.
For me these two games with the bottle, what we have played lately (one, which I didn't participate after our workshop in my grandparents appartment, and the other, what we played in Transylvania, on that very special and bizarr place, near that hunted house) were very interesting experinces. I wouldn't call them absolutly positive experiences, but I am very glad, that I had them.
I thought that in Kerek a káposzta we will make the audience sit in a circle. And we will play a bottle game with them. We will do what the one, whom the bottle is pointing at, asks us to do. I don't want the whole performance to be improvised. I want some structures, which are ready, when the show begings, but I want a lot if things to be decided there, right at the time, when the performance is happening. We have to find the best form for this, with Anikó.
On one hand I would like to continue performing it, because, it was succesful, we had audience, and people keep asking, when are we going to show it again.
But on the other hand, if we would do it the same way, as we used to a year ago, it wouldn't be inspiring for me.
I remember in the last times, when I used to play with LEGO, I was only interested in creating some buildings, little towns maybe, but I didn't really play with them afterwards. I feel sometimes similar interest with the performances, which I am directing. The process of creation is interesting, and some performances (the first ones) are interesting, but than, when we are ready, a new subject needs to take away my interest.
You know, I would like to find forms and ways of making theatre, when something is not just an imitation on stage, but it really happens.
I think I am still far from this, but I'm on the way.
If something really happens, we really do something. Otherwise it is only talking about something.
For me these two games with the bottle, what we have played lately (one, which I didn't participate after our workshop in my grandparents appartment, and the other, what we played in Transylvania, on that very special and bizarr place, near that hunted house) were very interesting experinces. I wouldn't call them absolutly positive experiences, but I am very glad, that I had them.
I thought that in Kerek a káposzta we will make the audience sit in a circle. And we will play a bottle game with them. We will do what the one, whom the bottle is pointing at, asks us to do. I don't want the whole performance to be improvised. I want some structures, which are ready, when the show begings, but I want a lot if things to be decided there, right at the time, when the performance is happening. We have to find the best form for this, with Anikó.
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Interesting to hear about your ideas of interacting with the audience. That's exactly what we did in our performance Monk Key. And thinking about it now, I really feel good that we did this. It helped me a lot, in more than one way. It wasn't only the preparation for this specific journey , it tought me some kind of deeper lesson which I'm starting to realize is of great importance for my life: When I'm doing something, a project, creative work in some ways, when it comes from me, from a somewhat bigger effort than what comes from reading a book, when I put my honest interest and passion into it, that is when I'm living my life. It doesn't have to be theater or Buddhist meditation. It can be anything! But I have to work hard, or push myself to work hard, meet myself in the door, go downwards sometimes, to really evolve. It's so easy just to study a little, being interested a little bit, traveling a little bit. All that is so easy because it's too shallow. I need to feel that I'm giving myself into what I'm doing. And in this theater performance I did it; I gave some honesty of my being. And maybe as important: I was sharing it with other human beings. This is what I'm longing for.
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