time for reality???
Tue, 7 Sept 2004, 10:25 amdrue5 posts in thread
time for reality???
Tue, 7 Sept 2004, 10:25 ama friend (and i use the term loosely) once said to me, "what do you as a performer give to the world... you dont save lives... you dont help people... how does anything you do help the world?"
i was reminded of this conversation when reading about the terrible situation in russia and was wondering if any of you had any opinion...?
i'll give you mine soon...
andrew blake
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i was reminded of this conversation when reading about the terrible situation in russia and was wondering if any of you had any opinion...?
i'll give you mine soon...
andrew blake
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Re: How better to take action than to ACT ?
Tue, 7 Sept 2004, 07:09 pmandrew blake wrote:
>
> a friend (and i use the term loosely) once said to me, "what
> do you as a performer give to the world... you dont save
> lives... you dont help people... how does anything you do
> help the world?"
>
> i was reminded of this conversation when reading about the
> terrible situation in russia and was wondering if any of you
> had any opinion...?
I'm currently tour manager for a Barking Gecko show, "The Littlest Bird" (coincidentally authored by David Ryding), just winding up our WA regional tour with a few shows in Geraldton.
Put simply, the play deals with the issues for young kids of fitting into a new place or community, and making new friends.
At the end of today's show, a tiny girl came up to Jess (one of the actors), gave her a big tight hug, and said to her "We're moving to Albany next year; but now I won't be so scared of fitting in and making new friends".
Does that count as giving to the world and helping people?
Your 'loose' friend's argument comes up often when issues like recycling, or aiding poverty, come up....what good can one person do?
I don't remember the source to quote, but I'm reminded of a phrase that goes 'think globally, act locally'. We can't expect to change the world single handedly, but we also can't ever underestimate the positive change that can happen from each small individual contribution.
@!#$ happens. So does beauty. Sometimes they're both in disguise; often they're both inexplicable. Art, in all it's forms, is as good a way as any of dealing with and understanding the world and what happens to us while it lets us stay on it.
I reckon the Russian's have a pretty good understanding of the importance of their art and culture; they already know more about tragedy than our history can hope to comprehend, at times their artists were criminalised because ruling tyrants recognised the power of the performer...yet throughout that time artistic expression survived, was strengthened by, and eventually outlasted, terrible world events.
I certainly don't mean to lessen the significance of events like the current one in Russia, but in the greater perspective they pale and are absorbed by the strength of the human spirit ... and that is the topic we, as actors, know best.
Cheers,
Craig
>
> a friend (and i use the term loosely) once said to me, "what
> do you as a performer give to the world... you dont save
> lives... you dont help people... how does anything you do
> help the world?"
>
> i was reminded of this conversation when reading about the
> terrible situation in russia and was wondering if any of you
> had any opinion...?
I'm currently tour manager for a Barking Gecko show, "The Littlest Bird" (coincidentally authored by David Ryding), just winding up our WA regional tour with a few shows in Geraldton.
Put simply, the play deals with the issues for young kids of fitting into a new place or community, and making new friends.
At the end of today's show, a tiny girl came up to Jess (one of the actors), gave her a big tight hug, and said to her "We're moving to Albany next year; but now I won't be so scared of fitting in and making new friends".
Does that count as giving to the world and helping people?
Your 'loose' friend's argument comes up often when issues like recycling, or aiding poverty, come up....what good can one person do?
I don't remember the source to quote, but I'm reminded of a phrase that goes 'think globally, act locally'. We can't expect to change the world single handedly, but we also can't ever underestimate the positive change that can happen from each small individual contribution.
@!#$ happens. So does beauty. Sometimes they're both in disguise; often they're both inexplicable. Art, in all it's forms, is as good a way as any of dealing with and understanding the world and what happens to us while it lets us stay on it.
I reckon the Russian's have a pretty good understanding of the importance of their art and culture; they already know more about tragedy than our history can hope to comprehend, at times their artists were criminalised because ruling tyrants recognised the power of the performer...yet throughout that time artistic expression survived, was strengthened by, and eventually outlasted, terrible world events.
I certainly don't mean to lessen the significance of events like the current one in Russia, but in the greater perspective they pale and are absorbed by the strength of the human spirit ... and that is the topic we, as actors, know best.
Cheers,
Craig