[Newspoetry] eh!

[auntbarb at onthejob.net]

> 
> 
> Ideas for the Sweet Betsy show:
> 
> 1) We place a large flag on the ground and project a diagram of the big 4
> media companies on the wall behind us.  A performer reads a poem for every
> square of the flag going from blue starred box to the bottom stripe (red I
> think).
	
	I'm not sure that we've got enough room for this, partly because
half of the wall behind us will be a window.  However, I can easily see
pulling off suggestion number 2; we'd just have to re-arrange the tables that
are already there.

Eh.

-Babs




> 
> 2) We simulate the look of a frantic round the clock 24/7 newspoetry room
> complete with "desks" (international, national, local, comics,
> editorials).  People are frantic at most times except when on the air at
> which point they become alert, clear, and slow.  Think of it as a clown
> car.  In between the acts are all the clowns running around the car;
> during the acts the clowns are all piled in driving.  This reverses the
> usually dynamic of readings (pause and quiet between poems, energy during
> poems).
> 
> I welcome additional thoughts on staging.
> 
> --danielle 
> 
> P.S.  I find this kind of preparatory/logistical conversation over e-mail
> to be a very good use of the medium.  It seems much more effective than
> scheduled meetings.  People manifest their presence when they have
> something to say.
> 
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