http://unitedstage.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/ Poetics in Live Performance Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:53:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://unitedstage.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-1378 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 16:54:32 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-1378 [...] to be ourselves without the determined Racial modifications.  Did anyone in the audience really suspend their disbelief enough to think of us as dark-skinned children from Siam?  Or did they just see a bunch of White [...]

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-422 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:53:25 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-422 Suspension of Disbelief is more of a standing agreement than anything. It’s an excuse to allow pretending.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-421 Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:32:45 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-421 If I understand it correctly, this theory of Suspension of disbelief has to be natural/ willing and not forced…

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-420 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:40:17 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-420 Suspension of Disbelief is that you agree to go along with something that cannot be real or true on stage in the real time of your current life.
You’re right that comedians and singers often break the fourth wall. I always prefer singers like Waylon Jennings who pretend there is no audience and respect the fourth wall. They come on stage and sing songs and leave. There’s no idle banter or joking around or encouraging the audience to sing along.

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-419 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 01:17:53 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-419 Are stand up comedians included in this? Don’t they have to break the wall? Singers in concert? Don’t they talk to audience?

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-418 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 00:47:07 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-418 Minimal and bored have nothing to do with Suspension of Disbelief, Gordon. You should never be bored in a theatre. If you are, then there is likely something wrong with the production. The Suspension of Disbelief is more that you accept there is a living monster before you named Frankenstein and that you understand he is afraid of fire, and he was created by a mad scientist, and so on…

]]> http://unitedstage.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-417 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 21:43:11 +0000 http://ustage.wordpress.com/2010/01/02/suspension-of-disbelief/#comment-417 I watched a production of Frankenstein in which, for the first hour, I simply couldn’t do it. The production was just so minimal that my brain couldn’t fill in all of the blanks they left — the maid opening an invisible window, for example. I think I would have had a better time now, however. A little maturity has done wonders for me.

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