I wish you the best of this Universe!!!! I send you a lot of positive energy from Argentina!!!!!

Ornella.

You say: “The exchange between viewer and performer is the most intimate and beautiful conversation.”

My time in front of groups of people is very limited, and was usually too stressful of an time for me to experience anything more than:
A.) They are bored.
B.) They are confused.
C.) They are listening and what I am saying is coherent.

There is more obviously…
…what is it that you experience back from the viewer?

I can refer to audience scenes of “The Illusionist”, or from episodes of “Seinfeld”, etc… for common reference, but I’ve never been part of your “live audience”, and audience of TV/Film certainly isn’t making it back to you through time, transmission, and media.

Are you referring to an exchange of “experiences” between viewer and performer? Or emotions?

I can understand the concept of “conversing emotions”, as you as performer are putting emotion into your performance, creating the experience of the play, and the audience then responds with some natural emotion (although unawares usually) while watching the performance.

A verbal conversation is between two or more people who can if they desire, equally input… it doesn’t seem to me the performer/audience conversation of emotion, can (or ought) to be as equal.

I mean imagine if someone in the audience stood up, started to walk around, and interact with the performers on the stage? That would change the performance to being a verbal conversation, between the stage, and those standing in the audience.

So back to the Blog comparison…
You make an entry… that’s like you doing a performance in front of an audience.
We comment… and if you read our comments, that can be like you getting a sense of emotion from the audience.
If you reply to our comments as a whole in a new Blog entry, then you keep the exchange at the performer/audience level.
If your reply directly to our comments, then it changes to being a verbal conversation with someone in your audience.

So outside the theatre, will you be manipulating the expression of your emotions to insure you get that joyous experience of the theatre?
Or will you be willing to simply share your raw honest emotions, and to take those same raw honest emotions from the people you are with?

And are you open to the experience of negative emotions that real life inevitably tosses up on occasion? Or will you be filtering everything through rose-colored glasses, and accept only the positive?

I hope your time in Prague is going and will continue to go well.

Sincerely,
-Someone standing in the audience.

ps- the video blogs are great. keep them coming!

xoxo
Beth

Thanks for posting the videos.I always love seeing bts type of stuff.Documentaries and commentaries always make me happy cause I get to see and hear how the show was put together.So the video blogs made me giddy to get a little inside scoop on the play.I have to say that both Katies are really funny.All the people there are very nice and seem like wonderful people who are excited to be there and put on an amazing show.It’s nice you involve and associate yourself with people like this.

Btw the sexy clock dance was AWESOME!Joe and Jessica looked hilarious doing that,I loved it.It would be great to see you do that Allison,you know if you ever get the time and chance maybe you could get Katie T. to film it.The big dork in me would really appreciate it.