The Rough Theatre

To me this article really hit home how a theater should be thought of, that it can be more then a large fancy building that wealthy socialites get a dressed up to go to so that they could be seen as well as see. That a theater can be anywhere and anything, which is so true because I’ve read about actors performing “theater” in a men’s restroom once, that only had two stalls and an audience max capacity of five. It would have been interesting to see such a play, how they would block it and what story could take place just in a restroom. This is kinda why I disagree with the articles remakes about the architecture, I think there is a place for fancy upscale theater building and for other types of building being used as a theater but to start from scratch and design a building that’s not the ridged strict up scale building and that is inspired by the non-traditional use of theater is just a plan waste of resources and effort. There is no perfect hybrid of these two types of theater because their have different end goals. Upscale theater is all about see and be seen as well as making a special of the show. Rag-tag Theater is about being and showing off the artist’s boundless creativity, a no-holds-bar to the contrary. To be different is to be sophisticated, it’s the business of creating a new language, as task not for the slow and the ordinary. Breaking rules takes knowledge, because you have to know the rules in order to break them.
One of the first ways I associated this article to this class was in its description of the rough theater. It reminded me of what I when through with the first assignment, scratch away at the film strip with any object, find any piece of found footage and attach it, and find any old object and lay it on the unexposed film strip. There is no order as long as it looks good in the end or at least has a reason behind it other then “that’s just what happened”. This whole article not only begs the question, is there beauty in chaos, but answers affirmatively in its own little way. That’s what we do with our projects; we bring order to chaos by showing beauty in everyday ordinary objects.