There are so many goodies on the theatre/bitcho-net/sphere already this week. Alas, I'm opening a show, so I doubt I'll get as involved as I would like.
At any rate, here's something fun.
Matthew Freeman of On Theatre and Politics has a post up that asks us to consider the syntax we use to describe our work.
As one of the mediums that embraces word play, we can do far more to create new genres or more accurately explain the many types of theater that are present in today's world.Crunk! I pick crunk! That's us!We can stop describing theater by region or size of house or general outcome ... and describe the actual feel. Think about words like Crunk, or Funk, or Smooth Jazz. They are Onomatopoeia. They make us immediately imagine what it is that we are going to hear.
Not really at all (crunk is short for "crazy drunk" and we're not), but I'd love if it a word like that were coined to describe our work. It's certainly more viscerally pleasing than repeating "a mix of music, movement, and metaphor" in every press release.
Should we try "metament"? That's kind of fun to say. How about "musaphor"?
