Blind Item #8 - Dancing Boy Blind Item
Here's another update about that first thing: "The Dancing Boy of Hollywood: A True Story."
It's back to being a multi-part, or rather multi-period/setting story, set in part in the present day, and in part (now) in the recent past as well as back in the day. Also: parts of it (past, I mean) will be projected rather than performed. When I first thought of doing it that way - having the story of my high school graduation party be shown as a tape rather than performed live - I was kind of like: is that even a thing?
So, research...Most assuredly there is "digital theatre," although what a stupid term and it sounds like your average pretentious mfa in theater class project (nuns chanting on film or something while small child dismembers a doll with a kitchen knife onstage). But then I'm like wait no this is docudrama - epic theater, it turns out (if I had bothered to actually take a theater history class, I'd have known this). And going back to the 20s, with the works of German-born producer Erwin Piscator in particular, the use of other media, and especially projections, was commonplace. So the 1991 story as well as what happened at the death bed of this doctor (which I secretly filmed), at least, will appear as projected films.
It's back to being a multi-part, or rather multi-period/setting story, set in part in the present day, and in part (now) in the recent past as well as back in the day. Also: parts of it (past, I mean) will be projected rather than performed. When I first thought of doing it that way - having the story of my high school graduation party be shown as a tape rather than performed live - I was kind of like: is that even a thing?
So, research...Most assuredly there is "digital theatre," although what a stupid term and it sounds like your average pretentious mfa in theater class project (nuns chanting on film or something while small child dismembers a doll with a kitchen knife onstage). But then I'm like wait no this is docudrama - epic theater, it turns out (if I had bothered to actually take a theater history class, I'd have known this). And going back to the 20s, with the works of German-born producer Erwin Piscator in particular, the use of other media, and especially projections, was commonplace. So the 1991 story as well as what happened at the death bed of this doctor (which I secretly filmed), at least, will appear as projected films.
