Show four of nine opens tonight, “Me and My Girl,” for which I will be running lights. Light op can be a boring task, as mostly all you do is listen for the stage manager to say “standby lights 19″ or whatever number, respond with “lights” (indicating you’re standing by) and then press the “GO” button when the SM says “go lights 19.” There’s one cool part in this show though in the second act where the ancestor portraits are coming to life and I get to follow the script myself, and call my own cues because of the complexity of what’s happening and the fact that the stage manager is occupied running interlocking sound cues. Pretty cool and a different flavor from what I had to do last time I ran lights for “Yeomen of the Guard” (which I also played a bit part in onstage).
Been thinking a good bit again this year about the possible intersections between (especially technical) theatre and immersive technologies of the future. Things like augmented reality and cloud identities, etc. Making me contemplate questions around how do you effectively build perceptual experiences with whatever given tools and options are at your disposal. No matter what technologies are yet to be invented, my hunch is that the basic core human perceptual experience will remain basically unchanged. That is, we may invent whole new ranges of experiences never before imagined, but the fundamental nature of what its like to *be a human experiencing* seems irreducible to me. Which is why theatre interests me so much - that it addresses the basic nature of human consciousness as an individual (whether as actor or spectator), and as a collective of individuals casting themselves into a shared imaginal space.
Clustering and sequencing within a given time-space realm seem to be what theatre is about. Stage managing (and running crew) has everything to do with getting the right pieces into place, and then moving them according to a given sequence to cause particular perceptual effects to occur. It’s all arranged around cues: listening or watching for a particular event to occur, which triggers a corresponding change to color or further impact the action onstage…
Anyway, more thoughts on this to come - gotta run!
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- Parallel Realities, not “augmented reality”
- Historical Re-Creation & Augmented Reality
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