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Emmanuel Bradshaw-Week 7-Steps toward a new world


- What are the most important/significant ideas or elements outlined by Roberta and why?
- What are the implications or resonances of Uno's precepts in your own practice?
- What could be a metaphor or analogy for the kind of theater that Roberta Uno describes in this text?
- What questions came up as you were reading this piece?

One of the biggest elements that i had read or had felt interesting to me was the fact that The Venue changed everything. This is because of how the audience is placed in the scene.  This Ideal also seems to change how a text or manuscript is performed. In this piece, The crux of The play is the notion that There are two separate realities. These realities are actualized when the audience is quite literally split in half

Some of the implications that I try to use are the idealisms of getting someone else if I feel as if The work cannot nor should not be done by me. If i was given a project that i had no true relationship with, I would rather give that project to someone else who knows/ has true knowledge of the subject.


I Guess the metaphor that i would use is something along the lines of societal theatre. Mainly because of the idea of going into communities and be willing to find theatre in an underground rap battle. It would just make the comment of nothing can be like this one thing.

The main questions that came up for me was how were you able to go to all of these experiences, and if you walked away with something that you had not known before?
How long did it take you to find the voices that you had wanted to hear from write a play?
What was the biggest venue that the group performed in?




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