I had a chance to see the Master Builder last night at the Yale Rep. Theater can be addictive and or a balm in gilead. The event and those captured-orchestrated-scripted moments can oscillate and stream through your consciousness. The drama experience can sometimes be like wave tides assaulting or soothing your perception of who you are.
During the "performance" and even after wards your memories have now been intruded. The recollection of the experience and the integration of the experience can have no effect,a profound effect or just a temporary sweetness( let's at least hope- for the bad taste in your mouth expression does sometimes apply)
The "plays the thing-all the world is a stage" ,we have heard these phrases and consider them to be mundane or profound. But I just want to suggest one other perhaps self evident cognitive hypothesis. When we attend a play we often think that we are just watching it- like watching a TV screen or a movie screen with darting images and sound emanating from them. Theater truly allows you if you are willing to participate to even "act" while the play is unfolding. The next time you attend a play try to "be" each actor", try to feel what each actor is feeling. We hear the expression of I really could identify with that part, or that role or what she said.But the next time even go further and imagine that you are on the stage - you are that actor- suspend your identity and become for those "moments" those characters.
The Master Builder allows one to engage in this transformers exercise-you might become enthralled and exhilarated.
During the "performance" and even after wards your memories have now been intruded. The recollection of the experience and the integration of the experience can have no effect,a profound effect or just a temporary sweetness( let's at least hope- for the bad taste in your mouth expression does sometimes apply)
The "plays the thing-all the world is a stage" ,we have heard these phrases and consider them to be mundane or profound. But I just want to suggest one other perhaps self evident cognitive hypothesis. When we attend a play we often think that we are just watching it- like watching a TV screen or a movie screen with darting images and sound emanating from them. Theater truly allows you if you are willing to participate to even "act" while the play is unfolding. The next time you attend a play try to "be" each actor", try to feel what each actor is feeling. We hear the expression of I really could identify with that part, or that role or what she said.But the next time even go further and imagine that you are on the stage - you are that actor- suspend your identity and become for those "moments" those characters.
The Master Builder allows one to engage in this transformers exercise-you might become enthralled and exhilarated.
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