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"René Magritte must have had mornings like that. Think of the painting he made in 1935. The painting is called "La Clef des songes" (The Interpretation of Dreams). It is a painting of a board with four panels. The board is like an old school primer, used to teach children the names of things. There is a horse, a clock, a pitcher, and a valise. Under the objects are words. The horse is labeled "the door." The clock is labeled "the wind." The pitcher is labeled "the bird." And the valise is labeled "the valise." Why are three objects mislabeled, while one object is correctly labeled? Maybe it is like our confused morning at the market. We felt odd not because the fruits were labeled incorrectly, but because the relationship of signs suddenly struck us as utterly arbitrary even when everything had been labeled correctly. Likewise, when we see the three incorrectly labeled objects in "La Clef des songes," we begin to distrust even the correct labeling of the valise. What does the word "valise" have to do with the picture of the valise, and what does the picture really have to do with the actual thing? When we represent reality in words or pictures, do we come closer to that reality, or push it further away?"

So what does this mean for theatre? Well, like I just said, performances, audiences, and things can be at multiple locations, at the same time, sharing a connected experience. Performers and audience can get "connected" with the output systems of spaces and spaces become "sensitive." So that would mean that you're now controlling the theatre lights, or my slideshow, or you're interacting with my body if I'm rigged in whatever way. Performers, audiences, and spaces can influence and manipulate each other, and the input-output system. In the classic theatre-the technician over there is sitting in the dark and is not supposed to be seen. But they're there and they're everywhere. The interesting thing is the whole theatre space is rigged in a very hierarchical way. But the Internet of Things is modular, so the idea is that everybody in the room can potentially become the operator or performer of a given system.

The first thing I wanted to show you is this image, which is about how you decide what the story is in the first place. Basically, I thought it would be useful to take some very dramatic job that a character has - in this case, a dragon slayer- and demonstrate how it is that the average day of a dragon slayer is no different than the average day of an insurance salesman, in terms of not necessarily being of any interest to a reader.

Welcome to learnimprov.com. This site is devoted to the art of improvisational comedy theatre. Learnimprov.com contains the most detailed and approachable collection of improv comedy structures on the web. Improv comedy structures are one of the key tools used to create improvisational comedy theatre. From games to warm-ups they are detailed here. It is unlikely that you will be able to learn improv comedy from the Internet. Improv comedy requires hours of rehearsal, coaching and dedication to the craft. This collection of improv structures is designed to help you along your path. Whether you are a recreational improviser, or a professional you can join the thousands of improvisers from around the world that have used this resource to make our world a funnier and more improvier place. Learnimprov.com is divided into two distinct parts: structures and tools.

Housch-ma-Housch is one of the funniest and most talented comedians in the world. His one man show is the result of many years of work. He delights the audience with a performance combining miming, clowing and magic. This comedian is an absolute multi-talent and palette of his roles is almost limitless.

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r. Bloom talked about his book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, published by Riverhead Books. The book is about Mr. Bloom's belief that "personality, in our sense, is a Shakespearean invention, and is not only Shakespeare's greatest originality, but also the authentic cause of his perpetual pervasiveness."

As a person who has had a long stage career as a performer AND a producer/director, I could spend time advising you on all of the things one should do to further their career in theatre. I'm not going to do that. While it may seem like I'm focusing on the negative, it is this humble writers opinion that it's more important to know what NOT to do. A vast majority of actors, singers, dancers, comedians, variety artists, technicians, and stage managers make one or many of these 6 mistakes far too often during their careers, and sometimes unknowingly hurt their chances at booking work. Employers talk to one another, and sometimes one bad reference is all it takes for you to lose the job. And you'll never know why you didn't book it. By avoiding these critical mistakes, you can set yourself apart from all of your contemporaries. While talent and craft is important, the most gifted performer can make themselves completely un-hirable by committing these career sins:

The basic marshmallow challenge (detailed instructions here) is an ideal exercise to sharpen collaboration skills. It's works because it's so simple: groups of four are given 18 minutes to build the tallest free standing building they can with 20 sticks of uncooked spaghetti, one yard of masking tape, one yard of string, and one marshmallow. The time limit is important - it forces students to collaborate quickly. The competition aspect is also important - this pushes groups to work at their best.

A film director, like an orchestra conductor, is the lord of his domain, and no director has more power than a director of animated films. He is set free from the rules of the physical universe and the limitations of human actors, and can tell any story his mind can conceive. That's no doubt why Chuck Jones, after creating the characters of the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote, immediately wrote down the rules of what could and could not happen in their universe. If anything could happen (and it could), the comedy would be lost in anarchy.

Williamstheatre presents THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller. Directed by Omar Sangare. Once emblematic of political persecution in the 1950s, THE CRUCIBLE is an allegory that resonates wherever sanctimony is used as a weapon of oppression and intolerance. In this canonical American drama set during the seventeenth-century Salem witch trials, Arthur Miller explores human cruelty and the manipulations, accusations, and dishonesty that afflict a paranoid community looking for scapegoats.

This collision of real-life tragedy and satirical ambition is much discussed at the Times Square headquarters here of Nickelodeon, a unit of Viacom, mostly because a day of trauma for America is also the birthday of a gentle and singularly optimistic character who, over the next 16 years, would prove eminently capable of soaking up at least a least a little bit of the world's ongoing sadness.

This is especially true when it comes to stage combat. And you may want to think twice before you claim it on a resume. This is true even if you took a workshop or two and/or performed fights onstage a handful of times.

Word on the street is that they are thinking of removing the arts from the schooling system… I'm sorry. WHAT?! Do my ears decieve me? JUST because it isn't considered 'academic'…? I'll tell you now, anyone who has trained in the arts knows just how important it is and how you can learn things even more useful than Pythagorus … Life skills!

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"But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil. It's an important but often-overlooked practice for any organization. When I ask an NGO "who are you trying to engage with?", the answer is often simply "everybody" or "you know, the people on our list". There’s an inclination to think “everybody will obviously be interested in our cause!” In reality, the more you refine who you want to talk to, the easier it is to reach them. Consider these two sample audiences:"

"Then there is the flip side, the shitheads who seem to ruin every production they're involved with or ruin theatre all together for others. I can't stand these people and try to avoid working with them as much as possible. So here is a list of the worst people in theatre that I've either worked with or encountered in some fashion. Some of these might sound familiar."

A patron's loyalty is built step-by-step with each interaction with your organization. Each purchase and each donation is an indicator of the affinity that patrons feel for the organization. The problem in the evolution of patrons often occurs in the hand-off between marketing and development.

Before I get to the point of my article, if you want to argue the point that TV advertising is dead and TV in general is dead and we'll all be walking around on moving sidewalks like the Jetsons in the next 5-10 years, fine. Just leave your thoughts in the comment section and I will respond in kind with a reply which essentially says "you're out of your mind."