Thinking … thinking … thinking … still … only that now Spring is here, and the park, the grass and the sun welcomes my messy head right now.
Still nothing concrete but a list of CONCEPTS to go one by one creating MATERIAL out of them.
I WANT A HYBRID PIECE OF THEATER
I want a mix of styles all part of the same piece: traditional text/dialogue, realistic scenes, then movement, then surrealism, then too much silence, then a video installation as a whole, then very technological, later very very simple, it’s a dance, it’s a two character straight forward scene, it’s a broken language mix of short scenes, it’s all about the transitions, it’s all about characters coming out of a ChatRoulette structure and materializing in front of the audience, it’s Spanish, it’s Guaraní and a lot of other languages, it’s a panopticon set and it’s a set made out of light designing ……………… it’s so much more in hopefully 90 minutes and no intermission.
I want to walk a thin line where I give them (an audience) things very Paraguayan and things that speak directly to the country, as well as I want to give them things that are universal. In fact when you’re dealing with the Internet as a theme, there’s no way you could restrict it to only one country. When you think about it, it’s the world-wide web ……. Now, how it affects a specific culture? That’s something else.
I want independent interconnected stories:
- multiple independent stories that come together with one event … maybe at the end. (CHARACTER #1 starts, all the other are introduced and when the SATURATION happens, the event is that they all decide to go without the Internet/technology at once … as an example)
- multiple independent stories that are interconnected from beginning to end.
- multiple apparently independent stories but one event in each story triggers the event on the next and so on and so on until they’re all connected or everything clashes down at the end until it disappears. (Dominos effect and also no Dominos effect because you see characters and stories more than once)
And then, there was LIPSyNCH
CHARACTER #1 is the first one we see, then we only see little bits of information here and there while all the other are being introduced, and it’s only at the end when we get to see the whole story about CHARACTER #1.
And then, there was SHORTCUTS (before Magnolia, Babel, Crash, etc, etc, etc)
Ok, so different independent but interconnected stories ALL framed by the Internet, not because they met through the Internet but because we live in a time when the Internet is an intrinsic part of our lives.
LONELINESS
It’s been said that loneliness is the disease of the century. I say the disease has been with us since the beginning of everything (whenever that was and I don’t want to get into that). We are human because loneliness exists and we don’t want to be lonely we would do ANYTHING to avoid loneliness even if we don’t say it out loud or if we try to fool ourselves. Life is so short to keep wasting time fooling ourselves, when each second we waste alone is gone forever … but sometimes it’s not our choice.
