Create for Change
We’re a group of young performers and designers based at the Pegasus Theatre in Oxford. Over the next three years, we’ll be devising and performing new work that explores a whole range of local, community and global concerns.
In this blog, supported by Creative Junction, we’ll be exploring some of the ideas behind the work, and documenting our process week by week. It’s a place for us to look back at the work that we’ve done, and a chance for you to get to know us better.
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This is a podcast of ‘Inspired’, a debate on mental health and creativity that Pegasus hosted last week. Members of all three Create For Change groups took part in it with roles on the panel alongside writers, artists and representatives of mental health charities.
In The Listeners, Magz sends for a robot, Lis, to come and listen to him talk. The play might be set in the future, but this isn’t very far away from current technology. For a while now, there have AI programs that can talk quite realistically in chatrooms - but how are they at listening? This video records a bizarre experiment where two chatbots were hooked up to each other, and the conversation they had. The result is a discussion about God, unicorns, and wishing they had a body - funny and creepy in equal measure - a lot like Lis, really.
The Listeners uses many different kinds of performance, drawn from and inspired by technology from the past. present and future. Among the techniques we’ve been looking at recently has been the use of silent film acting - inspired by the recent film The Artist - as one of the ways we can perform memory. How can you convey emotion without using words or sound? How can you relate to other actors? What can you do with your body language? Your face? Your eyes?
