Should we act in the present to bring about the kind of future we want to see? Does creative thinking have any power to forge the future we desire?
Can the theatre map peoples' lives? What kind of a geography do stories have? How do we make a stage of our landscapes?
How can theatre portray current economic realities? Is your money performing? Where does theatre sit in the global marketplace?
Practitioners from the worlds of Italian and Scottish theatre came together for a lively, entertaining and stimulating day! Part of Scambiare a mini season of Italian and Scottish arts in partnership with CCA and RSAMD
..Theatre and mathematics. Well at first glance they appear to be polar opposites. Maths is perceived as rational, pure and emotionally arid. Theatre is emotionally un-contained, messy and instinctive. But you can't help but notice that the language used by the practitioners in both fields appears to cross over. In maths mathematicians will often talk of beauty elegance, gut feeling or intuition in their work. And in theatre practitioners are forever talking about form, structure, pattern and space.
Religious practises, faiths and their rites inform theatre and performance in any number of ways: as a root of its historical genesis and development: in the very language we use to describe theatre and its 'art': as the subjects and themes of plays: in providing places and models for performance: as resources for actor training methods and so on.
Amongst the questions we asked were: how does theatre deal with belief, doctrine or orthodoxy? And how do systems of belief deal with theatre?
How has work in psychology and psychiatry influenced theatre makers views of the world? Can science help theatre practitioners understand 'character'? And vice versa? How does theatre work as therapy? Does theatre function as a public, collective memory? How do playwrights represent consciousness? And are they accurate?