Can Media and Theater Speak the Same Language?

-Theater from its beginnings was fascinated with technology, creating mechanisms that made objects and actor move of their own volition. (i.e. defy gravity)

 

-Since 1920s new components of technology have been used in theater: projection, film,

and video

 

-The placement of technology and imagery on the stage is tantamount to carrying on a conversation in two languages

 

-Projected Scenery, film, and video do not work in the theater (Author’s Feeling)

 

-Philosopher Martin Heidegger notes, “The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.” Its importance lies in its reordering of perception and is thus subject to a range of political, social, and economic influences.

 

-Viewer understands that actor belongs in fictive and real time. But the use of projection causes a disjunction between the projection and the stage frame.

 

 -The use of space and volume on stage can imply time

 

-A stage set is relatively permanent and unchanging

 

-When using film on a stage, the self-contained world of stage is suddenly interrupted by a live animated image, which has a different point of reference. (The two are subjected to vastly different interpretations)