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So the audience doesn’t care so long they like it… But how to play the believe game?

ENVY AND CONVENTIONS

There is an unspoken agreement between the audience and the writer of a pause in credibility. To enter the game, we need to be able to stop being so critical in order to play everything happening on stage as real[1].

Even if we are aware we’re not and have no money to pay the fly, we agree to be in Venice in the Renaissance (time machine?) or that the painted background is really made of heavy rocks. We don’t need screens projecting anything. We only need to be told we’re playing and we play. But for that to happen, do we need something special?

Worse, even before we start discussing it… Do we have to care about what comes up in theatre when we don’t even write playwrights? Maybe not. Except for the part in which the different media covet what the other media CAN do. Movies covet the introspection of novellas and the novella covets the action of the movie. Can we covet something from theatre? You tell me.

THE THEATRE PRINCIPLES ARE 7:

1. Placement reconvention.
2. Time reconvention.
3. Characterization.
4. Synchronization.
5. Enunciation identity.
6. Partial focus.
7. Opacity.

TO BE CONTINUED

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[1] Do you see how we play the reality game when talking fiction?

Before attempting to attribute myself merits I don’t own; I must confess of theatrical plays I have but read Oscar Wilde and a bit of Shakespeare [not in English]. And I have never been into any play but something by Molière I can’t recall (some high school literature teachers send kids to theatres to watch low budget plays in Mexico so they don’t have to read —I went cause my friends had to and it sounded like fun not because my teacher did send me) and «Confesiones de mujeres de 30».

Once confessed, the second thing is to speak of the source. The source is a YouTube channel called ‘El rinconcito’ and … It is in Spanish but the link is here just in case. That video and whatever it is I know about writing fiction, together make this entry up. Capice?

THE AUDIENCE… DOESN’T CARE

Thus, let’s start by semi? quoting. And I say semi since I’m going to summarize it the way I got it and not copy paste the entire text as is.

The audience gives a bull about the kind of a theatre play they’re watching. They won’t analyze if it is dialogued or narrated or whatever. The audience cares about liking it or not liking it.

If I refer this to any single media (movie, manga, comic, play, videogame, TV); the sentence might pretty much sound like this:

The audience (target) doesn’t care if they’re watching videogame referenced aesthetics, over repeated Korean clichés or cheap cringey scenes with tears on their eyes whilst saying their fare-thee-wells. Their only care is if they like it or not.

That itself is interesting. It should be another entry (and here, I open the parenthesis to talk aloud to myself: Do you see Merriam?, you should use it for more useless material). The target wants it to be effective. Likeable to them[1].

TO BE CONTINUED

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[1] Note to myself. Stop writing the weird things you write about and be like everybody else out there…