Research around theatrical ghosting for performance.
Below follows a series of videos that attempt to ghost famous Shakespearian monologues. All individuals are volunteers and were given the freedom to choose which speech they best connected to. This was an attempt to show that not only in the theatre does ghosting occur, however, due to the freedom of new media, the stage is now more than ever is all around us.
Edit: The idea behind these videos was to show anyone could ghost a famous speech simply from memory and through including errors it shows that even as we ghost we are trying to recollect a past theatrical experience. It was also interesting to explore how these videos or a version of theatrical ghosting could form as part of our performance.
“…we look at the stage and it returns our gaze” (Aronson, 2005, 101).
(Watson, 2016).
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Works Cited. Aronson, A. (2005)
Aronson, A. (2005) Looking into the Abyss: Essays on Scenography (Theatre: theory, text, performance), University of Michigan Press. United States of America. Pp. 97-113.
Edit: Unsure how to cite videos taken from social media as there is no guide on videos from messages
All videos property of Lauren Bethany Elouise Watson (2016).