| Feb. 19th, 2006 @ 03:23 pm I want to know |
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People confuse me. I want to be an unofficial scientist. I want to wander around talking to random people and writing in a notebook. I would write in a notebook so I could pretend that I was doing it for a college class or something, but it would really be for my own personal curiosity. I want to be able to ask strangers on the bus questions about: "Why did you introduce yourself to me?" "What was going through your mind before you opened you mouth to talk to a complete stranger and bring them into you life?" "What about that person made you want to talk to them?" "Would you be able to tell me, being completely honest here and knowing I will not get offended no matter what you say, because I want the truth and will not be offended by it, why you decided to talk to me?" "Why do you feel the need to communicate with people you do not know how your day was, or what you believe in, or that you can't wait to go home and eat some cornbread with dinner?"
I should probably also analyze myself. I sit on the bus and notice people, sometimes people seem interesting and I want to ask them,:
"Are you a forest fire fighter" (one day I noticed this guy where these green pants that look an awful lot like the one Lief got from his summer work)
"Where do you work in Bentley Mall?" (If I notice that they ride the bus from there down to college every day)
I mean I sit there and I wonder all these things about all these people, but I never open my mouth. I never ask the questions to satisfy the curiosity burning inside me.
What the hell? I mean I want to know everything about people and how they work and why they do what they do, but offer me a sociology class, or anthropology even, and I get bored out of my mind 'cause they make me learn about Lucy, and this great flood down in the south one year, and things that don't answer my questions. But send me into a theatre class any day. There we study human interaction... and the subtlety of how our unconscious minds read and react to each others' facial expressions... and personalities... and learning to go for the bacon... studying who is always on defense... making that daring jump and moving to offense to steal the bacon... understanding what the game actually means and what it says about the participants... and knowing, really and truly, ourselves and others.
And people think theatre is a joke major. Ha! The jokes on them.
Being a part of a production, and putting all of the pieces together, and understanding what you need to understand in order for all the little bits to click together and work in exactly the way you want them to, in order to communicate exactly what you want to to the audience, now that is a totally different from simply being an audience member. We have already done all the hard work behind the scenes to communicate to you, all you have to do is analyze it and understand it. Leave the theatre talking about it. Notice the little touches that made the production great, or don't notice, that is okay, too, 'cause even if you didn't consciously notice, your unconscious did, it understood all the little messages and interpreted them for you brain. It did its job, so you don't really have to. |
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