so the holiday travelling all went well. almost missed my connecting flight from detroit to pgh b/c i decided at the last minute that i needed a coffee and the detroit airport is just big enough to make that a very long walk.
anyway, the question of the moment is thus: i'm working on a play w/ blankspace arts, tenatively titled "stop it" that's about censorship and, i would assume, artistic integity and other things of that ilk that everyone agrees is a generally good thing. oh, and we're developing the thing from scratch, which means no original script and no actually idea...yet. only most of the ideas and scenarios that have been developed seem to be trending towards "censorship sucks" and "artists are oppressed" and other things that may be well and good and even true, but make for pretty awful theatre. mostly, it just comes off as preaching or whining when i take it to its logical conclusion.
so if anyone has any ideas, send them along... matt had a couple he told me about in the airport, but i can't really remember the details.
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8 comments:
...i have an idea that's pretty lengthy, but since i have all next week long to clean it up, on site...
The underlying idea is that control is an illusion, but one with very powerful allure, which is why so many of us scramble for it, usually to our own detriment...and yet we're all created equal, in terms of consciousness.
So even though censorship's a reaction to fear, that doesn't make any of its targets evil or anything.
Interesting idea and thread. I agree that censorship is about a type of control that's more than just words; somehow, controlling the universe means that none of us have to die. But I think that a play about censorship should also ask questions about whether free speech is really able to get past the filters in people's brains. I've been thinking about that a lot since the election--is anybody really listening out there? Or are we all just nodding our heads in agreement with those we want to hear?
lorraine,
sometimes i think maybe we're all just watching "the daily show" and laughing about how screwed up everything is. the big censorship problem, in my mind, is the self-censorship we always employ b/c we don't think it'll sell or anyone will listen.
i'm a little curious, btw, how you found us, whether or not you're someone we know, etc, and in a few i'm gonna check out your thread.
lucas
I stumbled on the site by hitting the "surf" button up at the top. Thought you raised an interesting point, and wanted to stick my nose in. I'll withdraw it if you like.
Thanks for you comment on my blog. I'll respond to it there.
Lorraine
on the contrary, i'm glad you took the time.
lucas
do you think self-censorship comes from too much time spent indoors learning when we should be out getting exercise, being happy, all that over-socialization that ted kezinsky bemoaned, where we all have surrogate things to fill time we're not working at "making a living" - instead of actualities? i think the climax would be better if there was a wash...you have to put yourself out there eventually, right, so as much as i hate to be sunny and optimistic, say the playwright did manage to find a way to produce the damn thing - and it was a success? an eye-opening, all-stops-pulled-out success...with room left at the end for some sort of regression, if you really wanted it so
i think generally, when people put themselves on the line for a good enough reason, that others respond. i know i get pretty tired of just listening to opinions. mostly i just curse those moments someone said something that really mattered to me and i wasn't awake enough to respond, or just repeated what they said...
other than that, i thought mr. reed's idea was pretty kool, though i've never read Brecht.
johanna
i'll send this along to the various people. and possibly add something in a bit here.
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