Comments on: Show Us Do Not Tell Us http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/ Poetics in Live Performance Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:53:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Glee? Karaoke! | Boles Blues http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-947 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:43:07 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-947 [...] Glee is lip-sync’d karaoke.  Where is the fun or the delight in that sort of dead, prerecorded, performance? [...]

]]> By: Camille Paglia Scolds Lady Gaga’s Nattering Vagina | Celebrity Semiotic http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-787 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:57:50 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-787 [...] what they’re really thinking.  The body does not lie — only the mind does — and removing access to our comprehension of the effective warning clues found in the physical realm wounds our ability to be seen, understood, appreciated, protected and preternaturally valued: [...]

]]> By: David W. Boles http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-383 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:03:35 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-383 Right. A silent action is more powerful than a whispered sentence.

]]> By: David W. Boles http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-382 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:00:37 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-382 That’s a very common mistake, Gordon, and people make it because they see so much of it being performed in live and recorded performance! You create what you’ve seen before — and if you haven’t worked with a non-telling form of showing… then you never know how to identify the mistakes and correct them.

]]> By: kathakali.chatterjee http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-381 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:58:52 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-381 An action on stage or on screen hits you more than words, with much ease.

]]> By: Gordon Davidescu http://unitedstage.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-380 Wed, 30 Dec 2009 13:26:07 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/show-us-do-not-tell-us/#comment-380 I feel as though I have to revise my play now and kill a lot of telling!

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