I recently posted some experiments in creating geographic landscapes over the space of novels such as “The Great Gatsby” and “Pride and Prejudice”. Like any maps, these are potentially spaces upon which people can overlay shared commentaries, links, histories, or interesting routes and connections.<\/p>\n
The game changes somewhat if the landscape is built from a play, such as, for example, Shakespeare’s “Hamlet”. In the case of theatre, we not only have the original written work, but also specific embodied performances. One can imagine a geographic landscape of the play as a map into a performance, and as a space for people to discuss aspects of that performance (or even from which to compare different productions).<\/p>\n
I have a sense that this sort of shared landscape can have a richness that goes beyond what we can do with novels, since the liveness of theatrical performance adds depth and dimension to the discussion. It would be interesting to see whether we could apply an adaptation of my narrative geography to the problem of building a community of thought and commentary around an particular performance of a play.<\/p>\n
We could also do the same with movies, yet somehow I find theatre more appealing for this process, because the connection is so much stronger and more essential between the original sequence of words in the script and the resulting performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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