What if the world turns to chaos?

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 8:39pm

 If an apocolyptic world falls on us would theatre be the first to go of the entertainment industry?

[Unknown User]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 8:46pm

No.  Baseball goes first.  Everyone knows that.

[ScottyDoesn'tKnow2]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 8:55pm

If the post-apocalyptic world falls upon us, I would think theatre and live performance would be the only forms of entertainment available. I don't foresee functioning cameras and TVs being as widely available as one person, a monologue, and some sort of audience in a chaotic world.

Updated On: 4/28/15 at 08:55 PM

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 8:57pm

...but will there be a cast album?

[Emmaloucbway]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 9:19pm

and will my fav actors come out the stage door/sign autographs/pose for pics amidst the chaos?!?! 

[Mr Roxy]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 9:36pm

It's already here.

[Fantod]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 9:40pm

And the Tony award for worst thread goes to...

[Matt Rogers]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 9:47pm

Setting aside the fact that this is the most insane thread that has been posted in a long time, it at least gives me the opportunity to mention that there is an award winning, well reviewed 2014 novel called Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel that is about this very subject. Description is below, and it is available on Amazon and other bookseller websites:

" One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur’s chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.
 
Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten’s arm is a line from Star Trek: “Because survival is insufficient.” But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave. Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate that connect them all. A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it."

[Fantod]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 9:52pm

I liked bits and pieces of Station Eleven, but found that it fell flat as a whole. The decision to hop around on the timeline and, like every novel or movie that does this, prevented a proper arch from evolving. The story was also far-fetched and depressing, but it provided interesting food for thought. 

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 9:52pm

Last season's controversial play MR BURNS  was about this too. 

[Fantod]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 9:57pm

Ugh. I really didn't like Mr. Burns. I thought it was annoying and completely unengaging. The whole thing was so preposterous that you really couldn't care. I'm sure others would feel differently, as I remember some rave reviews.

[PianoMann]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 9:58pm

"Setting aside the fact that this is the most insane thread that has been posted in a long time, it at least gives me the opportunity to mention that there is an award winning, well reviewed 2014 novel called Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel that is about this very subject."

Matt Rogers, the very first thing that came to mind when I read this thread was Station Eleven, too. I thought it was a very interesting read, and I liked a lot of the interconnectedness of the characters, but I wish the role of the theater was as prominent throughout as it was in the first quarter of the novel. 

 

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 10:01pm

Show curtains will be the first to go.

[Call_me_jorge]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 11:05pm

"And the Tony award for worst thread goes to..."

 I want to thank everyone who made this possible such as God who just told me one day "Be gay and be proud" and my loving mom who once threw her glasses at me, because I didn't want to wear pants to pre-school. I would also like to thank Alison luff for being the greatest green girl ever. And I would also like to not thank the tony awards for not nominating LMK. And lastly I want to thank my church youth group Plymouth Fellowship and my theatre company High School Rep.

https://youtu.be/R3ZAfwxZPG0

https://youtu.be/xT5JUqdft84

 

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 11:15pm

"Are there gun shots?" will be a much more practical concern.

[Fantod]

Posted: 4/28/15 at 11:20pm

And the Tony award for worst thread goes to...

 

PHILLYPINTO! 

Not sure of the thread, but I'm sure there are several out there worse than this one.

 

Sorry call_me-jorge

[oncemorewithfeeling2]

Posted: 4/29/15 at 12:54am

Fantod, I think the "Bisexuals aren't real" thread might take that honor.

[Fantod]

Posted: 4/29/15 at 1:06am

Oh god; that thread was such an enormous train wreck and not a single person even admitted that they were wrong about bisexuals.

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 4/29/15 at 1:51am

They should just make up their minds for once and for all.  Even Bruce Jenner did and she's got a lady's prerogative. 

[SweetLips]

Posted: 4/29/15 at 1:56am

"...but will there be a cast album?"

 

No--only sound tracks.

 

[darquegk]

Posted: 4/29/15 at 10:57am

I wondered about this- would we return to the griot tradition of vocational solo performers and storytellers, as opposed to the avocational tradition of "creatives" who collaborate to make malleable works of art?

Updated On: 4/29/15 at 10:57 AM