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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Sherry Turkle is a psychologist, and gives here a fascinating talk on how technology is changing the way we listen, how we make relationships, and even changing who we are.
Playing the same character
Magz is shown in the play to have different sides to his/her character: at some points aggressive and insensitive, others totally absorbed by computers and television and at others lonely and desperate. The fact that so many different people play the part exaggerates all these differences. There are also different scenes which definitely side towards a more masculine/feminine Magz, and having both genders playing the role help the scenes flow in a more natural and believable manor for the audience.
In certain scenes, when one or more Magz begins to play another role, such as the listener or Mum, it can give the impression that Magz is arguing with another side of himself/herself, totally lost and not knowing what to do.
“I’m sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands, and we’ll be debating whether we should get them, and then we’ll all get them.”
Jesse Eisenberg, who played Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook in The Social Network
“Getting information off the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant”
Mitchell Kapor
The Listeners imagines a future where technology is far more advanced than today, but where people and computers still struggle to communicate. But today, many schools’ ICT lessons are being criticised for not teaching young people enough about technology or what it can do - and are often trying to teach simple tasks that pupils have often learnt on their own.
This article collects some young people’s thoughts about their lessons. If learning how to use technology is so difficult today, can our imagined future really be that far away?
