. Theatre is an expression of community; people together, feeling experience, shared commonalities; like the raising of a child; like the realization of fear. This is the essence of a performance.
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The Dramaturge imposes clarity on something that needs to be unclear; that needs to be a mess. The Dramaturge becomes a ‘second guesser’ in their pursuit of clarity. Second guessing is dangerous to creativity; creativity relies on free impulse. The Dramaturge impedes free impulse; they ‘hum,’ they ‘hah,’ they wax poetic on bullshit, and while they do this the creative impulse dies in memos.
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…one shot, the whole legitimacy of acting as a vocation, as a career, is thrown out. Acting becomes a hobby for people do between drinks. Much like karaoke. Everyone can do karaoke. Therefore, everyone can act because this actor is doing it drunk.
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