Interview with Polarbear: spoken word artist
Me on stage telling you a story right now. That's why it's exciting. Sink or swim. Hopefully I can swim.
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Me on stage telling you a story right now. That's why it's exciting. Sink or swim. Hopefully I can swim.
The conversations around Money started before Easter last year, so before Northern Rock, but after the Enron scandal.
We're clearly part of a recent interest and enthusiasm for installations, of being put in immersive environments.
I started to envision a piece involving real time online interactions that would bring physical life directly up against cyberspace life.
We followed the structure of the dramatherapy method Sesame, which focuses a lot on the body as a key to accessing the unconscious.
I stood there with the camera to my eye, watching, waiting, lowering it from time to time to check the screen.
They’re such brilliant, simple stories, these Greek stories’, he continues, ‘but they often get clouded in a mist of incomprehensibility.
If virtual theatre is going to improve in the future, I’d like to be able to see the facial expressions of both the actors and the audience.
In theatre, the performance changes every night and the relationship to the audience can be much more exciting and bidirectional.
Listen to the experience of 'Walter Plinge', the RADA graduate who began his career in the mid 50's at the Derby Playhouse.
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