3/01/03 Script ideas: 3 main sections

First, the conventional monologues. This is what is expected of a performance of our kind, in the vein of Anna D-Smith. We developed specific characters, let the audience get to know them. They were safe characters, with interesting stories. They were the ones that came back often.

Yeah. The monologues would have worked if we hadn't gotten so bored with it. I decided (with my big ideas about "representation") to get up in Al's face during the speeches. I projected her image on the back wall. With each character switch, I switched the style of the live shots. Oh brother. What a way to alienate the audience from the very beginning. They weren't even listening to Al. I was in the way.

2: The therapy section was supposed to be where we starting breaking down the notion of virtual characters. I would ask a questions and Al would answer in 2-7 different voices. A kind of talking cure. We were trying to get at the notion of interrogation: Al is put under the spotlight, investigated, and examined. She switched between characters, the switches get faster and faster…

Oh brother. There I go again. We decided that the nature of interrogation can be translated into physical probing. So there's me: moving Al from character to character during our "therapy" session. This took on the look of a police search or something. I don't know what we were doing. Our intentions were to make clear the slippages in characters, and to reveal the physicality of our our performance (vs. the virtuality of the user's performance). Ah. Whatever.

3: last phase: the collapse of the technological mirror.

Yeah. Whatever. I was the technological mirror, cumming all over myself.