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)
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
All the many lame excuses for not reading plays, from “Plays are written for the stage” to “I simply don’t have time,” “I don’t read well (I’m not an actor),” “Nobody I know does it,” “I’d rather do a thousand other things,” are posted and debunked in Category: Why Not?
Soon to come. Sorry.
There are many very good reasons people go to the theatre, and as may very bad ones why they don’t.
The best reason to go is to be drawn into another world from the opening line to the final curtain and walk out gratified, if not transformed, a better person. This sometimes happens when a good play is well-produced.
Good reasons not to go: it costs too much, and too often the plays are trite or trash (or trashy) or (more often still) poorly played, misinterpreted. At best we’re amused. Continue reading To Go or Not to Go
The (Jewish) Defendant in Mamet’s Romance is a chiropodist (no, a chiropractor!) who discovers and proclaims, at the end of Scene Two, in the middle of a vicious (and hilarious) bloodbath of religious bigotry with his (Catholic) Defense Attorney: “I KNOW HOW TO BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST!” Continue reading Mamet’s Chiropractor
Cold Reads/International 