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We in theatre today stand on the verge of a crisis. As we emerge out from postmodern realism, a new form pleads to be invented. What this form will look like has yet to be decided, but the up and coming generation of theatre artists must decide whether to continue on the path already set out by the ones that came before, or revolutionize or radicalize theatre as we know it, much like Andre Breton, Maurice Maeterlinck, and Hugo Ball did in the early 1900s- Today’s theatre yearns for a change . Who will be the one to lead it?
A nice article in, of all places, the Wall Street Journal about Wally Feresten, the cue card guy for Saturday Night Live. It involves performance, writing, timing, rehearsal, and excellent penmanship. It takes a lot of people to make a performance happen – many more than you see on the stage and screen…
Here’s a brief article in the Guardian that talks about the rise of “cabaret” performance over the past few years – particularly in England. An interesting perspective on a much maligned form of performance, along with a little ‘what traditional theatre can learn from cabaret’ – plus an interesting connection made between this current cabaret resurgence and the rise of vaudeville in times of financial stress and recession.