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April 15, 2008 |
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Anxious
FOUND by Sean Apple
in Seattle, Washington
I found a little notebook, and it had a few interesting things in it. The author was probably in the theater, or involved in drama. The style of the whole notebook is a frenzied sort of stream-of-consciousness writing that probably only makes full sense to the author.
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We collect FOUND stuff: love letters, birthday cards, kids' homework,
to-do lists, ticket stubs, poetry on napkins, telephone bills, doodles -
anything that gives a glimpse into someone
else's life. Anything goes...
This makes me think of Gallagher sledgehammering watermelons, etc. and getting the audience all sticky and messy. No thanks, that would make me anxious. But it's funny to watch from a distance.
I love the name Sean Apple. How cute. This find doesn't move me though.
I love his find! I'm a drama student, but I can't tell if they are talking about Theatre of Cruelty or some kind of Brechtian thing...
Meh.
This writer is probably getting very distraught looking for her (I'd guess 'her', from the handwriting and the circle under the question mark) notebook.
Could some theatre person explain what is going on here? Notes from a teaching session, but whether teacher's or student's notes I can't guess.
Rex??
Good to be reminded that theatre is hard work, hard study, technique and psychology, not just self-indulgent luvviedom.
I like the way the notebook is called 'NOTE BOOK' in case you hadn't worked out what it's for.
For those of you who missed it go back to yesterday morning's comments and check out Jason's new project.
What is being anxious? Elevator into the audience does it for me.
Maybe the writer is suffering from space elevator madness.....
Elevator music makes me anxious. I think the other Find of the Day is a list of elevatorized muzak that's playing in my nightmare's elevator to HEEELLLLLLL.....
I would go to a show where an elevator went down into the audience. And I like muzak. It requires no thought, just weave back and forth to the music. la...la...la...la...la.
la la la la la...
oh my, stalker, are you singing the Carpenters' "sing, sing a song.. sing out loud, sing out STRONG..."
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Being anxious ... is when you're a mime on the way to a performance, and you get trapped in a transparent box on your way there, and you just know you're going to be late for the show, and you keep trying to find your way out of the box and keep calling for help, but people can't hear you because you're in that darned invisible box, and they just stand and stare, and some of them walk away but you know they're not going for help. THAT's being anxious.
stalking..thanks..now that song is in my head.
and, yes, Jonathan. Where is Rex when we need him?? Poor boy, is stuck in a job where he's not allowed to access Found.
Riding an elevator into the audience sounds dangerous to me.
If its a stage actor/director/whatever this makes perfect sense as notes on a performance.
First off making a note on what emotion to convey, and asking what the desired effect should convey. Then talking about what to do during the 1st 20 seconds: go up on the stage lift/elevator and out into the audience.
And Mona, quit swooning over Rex. You are a married and grown woman, not some sappy puppy dog.
Ive also noticed that many submitters have found notebooks filled with interesting things, but all we ever see are little tidbits. I would love to see more of these documents. I know it would be more work to do that, and I am sure some would complain that it breaks privacy boundaries, but it would be nice to have a larger chunk of the notebook contents.
I would also like to see spam questions that relate to past finds... That way people could finally stop being upset that they couldnt answer the math questions, and spam bots would have a much more difficult time guessing them than numbers... Just get a spam bot that puts the answer as 42 (or just starts with 1 and increments until it makes it in) until it successfully posts, and we could be spammed... Not that I have ever seen spam here.
Ah, fellow Foundhounds, what an odyssey this find started! I was instantly, for some reason, reminded of an extremely surreal TV play I had seen in the 60's. I saw it twice, I remember, but understood nothing at that age, except that it was a jewel of absurdity, in the literary sense. Checking the ever-useful IMDB, I find that the half-remembered title is "The Cube", it was filmed in 1969, and its creator was--hang onto yourselves--JIM HENSON!!
Now, don't expect anything "cute" or fuzzy or at all "Hensonesque" in terms of muppets. This is serious stuff. You can find it on Youtube and Google videos. It will get inside your head, I guarantee. I had begun to think I had imagined and/or hallucinated the whole thing...it has a lot of the fever dream about it. As far as I know it isn't available on DVD at all. But at least I know it was real--as far as it can be. And all because of this Find.
"Strawberry jam..."
If they're trying to make the audience anxious, stepping into the audience is a surefire way to make that happen!
@LIBRARIAN- You're definitely correct on the definition of "ANXIOUS".
I know I'd be anxious if sensory deprivation was done to me!!!
This definitely reminds me of my middle school drama director's notes. They were scribbled across the page in handwriting and language only he could understand, in his true ADHD fashion.
These are probably notes, given to the actor from the director after a rehearsal.
Hmm.. you know what this reminds me of?
Those questions: Which of the following does not belong?
"elevator?"
Either a genuine stage lift (up through a trapdoor) or a metaphorical 'elevator' -- how to catch the audience's attention during the vital first 20 seconds? -- emerge into their consciousness as if coming up an elevator, then project your state of mind into the audience by your words/facial expressions/body language/interaction with the other actors.
Maybe.
Unless the loser of this Find or someone else in the same drama class/rehearsal comes forward to explain the meaning of these hasty notes scribbled as a brief aide-memoire to remembering what the drama teacher/director was telling them, I guess we'll never know.