tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037381095504508998.post7778771891001373961..comments2024-03-15T05:16:17.601-04:00Comments on Flux Theatre Ensemble: Chess and PlaywritingAugust Schulenburghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16707611220473062833noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037381095504508998.post-9501505854467194982010-04-04T13:59:14.511-04:002010-04-04T13:59:14.511-04:00Surprising the audience must depend on what the au...Surprising the audience must depend on what the audience wants, right? If a playwright plays on desires that we'll always have, the play should remain exciting and surprising!Matt Ahttp://www.matthewarchambault.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037381095504508998.post-73346516790161892302010-03-29T17:43:29.369-04:002010-03-29T17:43:29.369-04:00But here is a paradox - why great writing, no matt...But here is a paradox - why great writing, no matter how familiar, continually surprises and excites. A poet once pointed this out: that what makes a poem great is that inexhaustible feeling that something new has just happened. Perhaps once that unlikely juxtaposition is discovered/created - no matter how familiar it is, it is remains 'odd' in our mind's eye and therefore vivid and luciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17562286037979044770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037381095504508998.post-37749447082804870762010-03-29T13:01:04.453-04:002010-03-29T13:01:04.453-04:00Lucia,
I agree that narrative structure is an abs...Lucia,<br /><br />I agree that narrative structure is an abstract conceptual hierarchy of meaning; and I think that most audience members have played so many games of story that true surprise is difficult. But that challenge of giving an audience a truly inevitable surprise in story telling is what makes playwriting so exciting!<br /><br />Paul - me, too. I think it would be fun to give narrativeAugust Schulenburghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16707611220473062833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037381095504508998.post-53478067388954911792010-03-28T17:11:20.196-04:002010-03-28T17:11:20.196-04:00I think that's exactly right, that's how o...I think that's exactly right, that's how our minds work - a continually building of abstract conceptual hierarchies, not only to reduce memory load, but to play freely with large amounts of information (collapsed into abstract structures). So if an idea leads you to build a particular hierarchical structure for a play, it makes sense that it would work for a couple more plays before the &luciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17562286037979044770noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3037381095504508998.post-60880986118685492932010-03-28T14:17:37.598-04:002010-03-28T14:17:37.598-04:00I am fascinated by the intersection of chess playi...I am fascinated by the intersection of chess playing and playwrighting.Paul Mullinhttp://www.paulmullin.orgnoreply@blogger.com