All posts by George Gray

I'm a veteran theatre professional who thinks the impending death of the lively art reflects the deconstruction of human(e) civilization.

It’s a Game

This post (when it happens) will explain how cold reads are like theatre games actors and psychologists use to develop characters and personalities, imagination, spontaneity, … and so on

Like Talk Show. We listen and react, ad lib, extemporize

Compares cold reads to theatre games, all games, activities

Compare read to debate (the play the topic)

 

My One True Faith in the Willing Suspension of Disbelief

WORK IN PROGRESS (ALWAYS)

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When prehistoric people had no answers for natural forces that controlled their existence, they attributed them to the supernatural—super-human forces, beings—and began to search for ways to influence them, from sacrifice to poetry and music, acting out their hopes and histories, theatrics, evolving into rituals performed by priests. So popular were these rites that they continued to be played even after the mysteries were solved, at which point theater emerged as a separate entity. Continue reading My One True Faith in the Willing Suspension of Disbelief