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Post by Michael-Ray on Jul 4, 2012 18:34:27 GMT -10
this is also a separate thought. I was talking to someone i went to college with who loves this play. i don't know if this is anything we want to pursue, i just thought it was an interesting point. my friend was saying that he always say the play happening in one night as opposed to x amount of years. that after he sold his soul to the devil meph simply entertained him for and entire night making him think he was going on amazing adventures and etc.
this is something i'm saying we explore in rehearsal, i just thought it was a cool perspective. this doesn't hugely apply to this above passage. i just wanted to through this out there. it might be interesting to see how this apples though since the play is in a very contained setting
michael
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Post by Andrew on Jul 5, 2012 11:00:09 GMT -10
this is also a separate thought. I was talking to someone i went to college with who loves this play. i don't know if this is anything we want to pursue, i just thought it was an interesting point. my friend was saying that he always say the play happening in one night as opposed to x amount of years. that after he sold his soul to the devil meph simply entertained him for and entire night making him think he was going on amazing adventures and etc. this is something i'm saying we explore in rehearsal, i just thought it was a cool perspective. this doesn't hugely apply to this above passage. i just wanted to through this out there. it might be interesting to see how this apples though since the play is in a very contained setting michael Moved! Me and tom were just discussing this post: [4:54:00 PM] ha-andrew.valentine: oh fun [4:54:19 PM] ha-andrew.valentine: did you see MR post on making the play as though it is real time? [4:54:40 PM] ha-andrew.valentine: that it is AN ILLUSION that faustus goes through 24 years [4:54:46 PM] Thomas Sidman: Haven't gotten to the website yet [4:54:48 PM] Thomas Sidman: ooohh [4:55:09 PM] Thomas Sidman: so like a dream? or an actual devil made illusion [4:55:10 PM] ha-andrew.valentine: but it is actually an acquisition of his so in the 1.5 hours the play happens [4:55:12 PM] ha-andrew.valentine: YES! [4:55:15 PM] ha-andrew.valentine: like a dream [4:56:12 PM] Thomas Sidman: So when does the dream start [4:56:19 PM] Thomas Sidman: at the beginning or later on [4:57:22 PM] ha-andrew.valentine: good question and how does he go in and out [4:57:36 PM] ha-andrew.valentine: do the kurogo plug him in? [4:59:50 PM] ha-andrew.valentine: good talk. |
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Post by Lani on Jul 5, 2012 11:54:37 GMT -10
I love this idea!
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Post by Kipuka Theatre Admin on Jul 5, 2012 11:57:54 GMT -10
Will this offer the audience a real-time demonstration of defiance - giving even more support to the kurogo?
Like turning off all the lights and saying "Bloody Mary" 6 times in front of a mirror. Funny how close that "Mary" was to Marlowe's existence. Is our performance a defiance like when Queen Kaahumanu defied Pele and threw her sacred berries into the fire in the name of Jesus? Is the play itself a representation of Fausts irresistible urge to shake up the world in order to change it somehow. Is Doctor Fasutus theater for change?!
The final monologue ascends time quite rapidly, jumping forward by the hour right in the middle of it - closing in at midnight - DF's death. Time time time time time time.
On the illusion and dreams: The solipsist says "Prove to me that you are not figments of my imagination." With Heloise quote by Rene Char “Lucidity is the wound closest to the sun.” Did Faust figure IT out? Was he rendered helpless when he discovered that the "bigger picture" and reality is kinda shit? Lacking profundity?
Looking at the text we do already have plays within the play. Perhaps dreams within a dream? Then, when we expire in our dreams, do we die in real life? Do we get transported to another place? Is it random? Is after life .. our next lucid dream where we redefine reality and settle on that?
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Post by Christie on Jul 11, 2012 16:23:52 GMT -10
I love this idea! I had never thought of that. What is real in the play? For all we know from the very beginning of the play when Faustus is speaking of how science and medicine bores him, could all be a dream.
I'm really glad that at the end of the play he doesn't wake up and learn from his "dream life" like so many movies and plays end. It takes all the depth and gravity from the story. Wondering did Meph. just mess with him and take his soul in one night? really interesting stuff Michael.
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Post by littlejudah on Jul 25, 2012 11:06:20 GMT -10
I once lived 10 days in one night. It was an emotional experience. The walls closed in, women swam above me, my world was upside down, rain came from the streets, my soul hovered above me. I thought to myself, "I'd sell my soul to replay time. Take me back to day 1! My time can't be up yet! Please God! Give me back my time!". I woke up the next day to find myself in a New York City apartment. It was just day 3 of my 10 day vacation.
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