 That's not something that we want. How do you want to be a circle? Fix it, because it's broken. So how do we make a beautiful circle? Now, where is the circle? Is it in the space that we want a circle? Not so sure. Okay, good. We have our beautiful circle in a place that we want it. Good. Now, I'd like to ask you two questions. One is, what is your name? I'll answer it right now. What is your name? And please just, I would like you to describe for me a moment that you experienced in a, not necessarily in a theater, but watching a performance that made you either a discover why, a discover that you wanted to be a performer or an artist, or be defined why you have chosen to be. So a moment that was very powerful for you, a performance, a moment in a performance that was very powerful for you. And I'd like to quickly describe that to you once again. Hi, I'm Jimmy. I saw Reducing a Proof in 1916, and something just really went off to me when I was seeing what Robert is outside, and the books and the code, and he's like, he's getting better, he's getting better. He's having just great revelations, and you see the sheer joy Captain Space said, oh, my father died. And then seeing how wrong she was, we're in that crumble. And I guess in that domestic history play, it was that, that build-up, that build-up in just pulling everything out from under the feet. And that is exciting so much, and kind of forming up a lot. And I'm feeling such extreme joy, all by such extreme pain. Going to those levels so quickly is what I'm kind of loving on this scale. He starts missing all this craving that means we're together, and he's getting progressively more and more far-fetched. And you see this smile and I look all down into this just a lot of awful smoke in Captain. And I guess that processes motion for everything that's out of place. Yeah. I'm Esther. Hi, Esther. And when I was in my early 20s, I believe it was Victoria Chaplin who was about to be found again, which is why I was just thinking about this, who did a show called The Circle of the Sea, and she did a lot of circus stuff. And she had a routine where she was on, it was sort of trapeze, but it was like a big piece of fabric, a rope, and she was swinging out over the audience, and there was a lot of wonder happening in the theater. And we didn't see it, but she hooked her feet into it, and she just let go, and flew straight into the audience. And it was the first time I'd ever heard an audience gasp. Like you do when you're at the circus, doesn't it? And it was, I mean, it was shocking, and it was so exciting to be in a group of people that all went, Oh! All at once. And I was already in the theater, but really put my life to mind. Loved it, and gave you a whole new reason to be doing it. She was all in white. She was wearing white. She was wearing white. And the site was blue, and I'm sure she must have been spotless. And she was pretty high up. Did you see anything else except for her white? There was nothing else on the stage. She was just out in the air. Yeah. My name is Tanya, and when I was a senior in high school, in my English class, we went to see the production of the chartier. And I loved it, and what I loved about it was that it was very funny and somehow subversive and dangerous, and it was mostly the guy who was playing the chartier that I remember seeing where he was groaning the bell when we played the film here, and he scooted a sort of gesture where he all of a sudden looked like Christ on the cross and the audience was laughing and laughing and then they went, Oh! And I thought, Oh my God, he's so powerful. And I wanted to do that. And then I realized I was in big trouble. Was that a possible dress? Yes. My name is Adrian, and I guess in the final moment, or before for me was, this past summer, I saw rainbow cove, and it was just amazing. I think the strength of the actors was what made me say, I'm a distance, what I'm going to learn, I definitely believe in theater for a purpose. I want to just show what we give on stage, oh, and that's what it means, but really getting into the performance, being honest with yourself and honest to the audience. And I saw that there. Was there a particular moment in where you evolved today that led you to transcendence and you thought, Yes, that's what I wanted to hear. It was closer to the end of the play. And the character arm was having an apartment with his wife. She was frustrated with what he was doing. She was tired of him. He was running for office and so she was kind of infuriating with that whole process and everything that he was doing. And it was by being dishonored she looked at the actress and she just looked at the audience and did her monologue and it was so honest that that right there just made me But was she isolated on stage? She was isolated, yeah. You couldn't see anything else? You could see everything else but she was like right at the edge of the stage just looking into the audience's eyes. She was in the front. Yeah. It was a very small theater, so very emotional. She was wearing a blue and kind of orange like a business suit. And when she was speaking she just turned a lot of her shoes. Now she was just sitting in the chair. I'm Andrew and I saw the introduction of the brother's size here in Africa and the moment when the song started playing and it was a sort of small theater small-ish it was in the round it was a little too warm it was just everyone in the audience was so in and as this song came on it just completely filled the space after sort of a long stretch of the play where things aren't going so well and it's painful then this song was just such pure elation and sort of I guess the opposite of Jimmy's little memory but you could feel it felt like everyone was floating a couple feet above their chairs. What was happening on stage? On stage as the song was playing the two brothers were sort of teasing one another and talking about I remember when when this song was playing you could see a little bit of sort of abandon come in for both of them and they were just dancing and singing along and playing their air instruments and when the horns sort of swell in and yeah they had stopped even pretending to play and were just dancing and were just it felt like it looked like the music was coming out of them they were wearing ripple current jeans and dark color t-shirts My name is Harry and all of what I'm thinking of was on was in a film projection by Doug Aiken called Sleepwalkers that was projected onto the facade of the Mona in New York and when I went to see it what was so neat about it was that I was both a citizen in New York and I was an audience member watching this projection and it also felt like I was an audience member because I had to interact with people around me and on the screen I saw Donald Sutherland who throughout the whole the whole film had just been sort of sleepwalking through life and then in this really exhilarating moment he almost looked like he was going to fall over and then instead he saw the hood of a taxi cab and starts tap dancing and it was so beautiful to see and so exciting to see this out of the ordinary thing happening and I guess it just made me feel like so many other people in life are just sleepwalking their way through it he was on the street crossing the street so on the outside of the building there was projection and in the projection Donald Sutherland was one of the actors and so he's in New York walking across the street sleepwalking through life and then all of a sudden he just jumps on to the hood of the taxi cab he was in the film just watching the film I was watching the film he wasn't actually on the screen he was in the film he jumps on the thing yeah it was night it was dusk across the street interacting with all the people walking down the street trying to avoid people you were walking or they were walking they were walking I was trying not to walk but I was walking too because there were lots of pedestrian traffic so everyone's moving my first memory was when I wanted to be an actor I didn't actually watch a lot of theater until college the first thing that came to my mind was magic shows we did a lot of magic shows from New Jersey so we went to the city of Harris and we used to see a lot of magic shows but I can think of the most recent show that brings that idea there was a moment in the magic show that was okay it was performance magic shows I think the thing that pops the most is sitting in the theater there were tables in the theater so you could sit and watch and eat at the same time I don't have a moment I can just tell you the colors the lighting the clapping and the noise and the back of things disappearing and coming back into vision and the idea that magic was going on and I was very little when they take the the knives the black box and the ladies in there and they put the knives in all the way through and I'm not a violent person they put the knives through and then she but then they open it up and she's not even in there she's in there she steps in there she steps in there and she disappears after she's back that's like two tricks in one she goes in the box they put the knives in and then she disappears and then she opens the box and they're going through the box but there's nobody there she goes first of all she came out of a skimpy but that short very fitted like a fringy at the bottom red sparkly and it's tight up here her hair is up and she has pumps on you know tights of the clothes you can see color I guess it would be a sky that didn't know what the sky was but it would be her psych psych these black purples and reds and really gaudy sparkly things coming down looks like fringe looks like what's on her clothes music what was playing when she disappeared I don't know I think I want to do it but I don't know how to do it do it really fast because a lot of time but thank you for all those experiences that often happens which happen here and 99% of the time happens is when people describe these I hear no words people don't remember what people said they were like blah blah blah but they don't actually remember the words they remember what they were wearing they remember all of these other things that created this moment for us to go oh my god that's the best moment right so quickly what are the things back in the theater that we use besides text to create these moments music movement lights scenery sound chest air what else no matter this is the anarchic part except words we can say words okay people surprise wouldn't you buy that how do you use extreme opposition okay let's sort of like dynamic okay one thing at a time if you try to do too many things at once it's going to be mud so one like what do you mean by it good spaces expressions good distance yeah okay good so you get the idea so these are like specific things that we can say okay you try this over from over there and over there now let's change the distance and it becomes something that's what we're talking about okay so let's all go take a seat because I only have go ahead at any time at all we're just going to do some of this really quickly what else okay