http://www.dokmfa.org/?p=16
This is an "Essay on theatre ethics" which i found on line. Its is written by David Orance Kelly. There was a particular paragraph i wanted to copy and paste, but as i clicked on the screen it said "copyright protected", now i really really want to use this essay as i completly struggled to find something that was related to ethics and issue based theatre...so can i still quote from this article?
Something i found really interesting in this article was when he started talking about how ethics within theatre changes determinned on the theatre, community and interesting the theatre size.
This stuck out to me as in my first priminary questions i asked "what leads theamatic drive in issue based theatre? the issue? or the theatre?"
Is it correct to put on stage a issue which is directly affecting somebodies lives without their permission, or if it could cause offence...but for the greater need of the awareness for the issue?....
...now that might not make sense..but if it does.....should i go further into this?
It then lead me to ask questions about Chickenshed and the processes it goes through when producing issue based theatre. When digging i found out that actually Chickenshed have had alot of confrontation and alot of people that have been offended with some of the shows that have been on. This is something in my inquiry that hopefully i will further investigated
Jojo
ReplyDeleteIt is really good to see you playing with these intellectual ideas - practical in so far as you are looking at issues based theatre production, but you seem to be going into unknown territory which is part of the fun of research.
Yes you can quote from copyrighted articles - use the Harvard method to cite the author - the author by saying it is copyright is saying that he does not want someone to cut and paste his hard work somewhere else without citing him as author. However - in this blog - a link is the easiest thing. Think about someone using you own blog - this is similar - it is the sharing that Web 2.0 can offer.
Good questioning - interesting to hear about the effect the issues based theatre has in venues such as the Chickenshed. It again begs the question about the purpose of issue based theatre. Paul has put out the notion that some theatre productions have longevity and some do not. Your issues about the use of 'someone's story' ask a good ethical questions. Have you seen Anna Nicole the Opera http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/gallery/2011/feb/18/anna-nicole-opera ?