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Multi-media and real fiction theatre making

journal contribution
posted on 2011-03-01, 00:00 authored by Scott Welsh
Visual images, in the process of both the imagination and conception of a theatre production, are central to contemporary practice in drama-making. The use of multi-media in theatre is not only a fruitful way to represent the visual component of a particular experience, it but also constitutes a way of speaking the unspoken. Visual language expresses through multi-media and allows broaching taboo subjects, speaking directly to the audience in spite of the indirect form and drawing subtle connections with the live action so as to make meaning. The tension between live action and any form of visual art blurs the lines between imagination and reality. The multi-media theatre is a metaphor for the human mind exposed to social reality. It consists of interruptions, half-finished conversations and ideological aspersions including its primary function of meta-representation.

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Journal

US - China foreign language

Volume

9

Issue

3

Pagination

194 - 200

Publisher

David Publishing Co., Inc.

Location

Libertyville, Ill.

ISSN

1539-8080

eISSN

1935-9667

Language

eng

Publication classification

C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2011, David Publishing

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