Theotre of the Mind

Are we getting in a rut or planting ourselves firmly with room to grow? Emmet & Youssef talk Thornton Wilder, Thorstein Veblen, theatre seating, nostalgia, conspicuous consumption, mortality, presence, the unbearable speed of existence, haunted houses, & more!***Community Corkboard:Blood Brothers tickets: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/Inaugural Perkolator resident artist Laura Mota-Juang: https://www.instagram.com/imnofiction/Kitchen Theatre Project 24 Hour Play Project Participant Registration:https://forms.gle/5UxchN2PDoqe521q8 Audience Registration: https://forms.gle/w5iTGM7JnaqNFTW36 Beetlejuice Jr. at St. John’s High School: https://sjchs.ticketsplease.ca/events/beetlejuice-jr/Spring on the Mississippi lyrics: https://mudcat.org/detail_pf.cfm?messages__Message_ID=873164Our Town:Read the script: https://archive.org/details/ourtownperennial0000unse1989 Production with Spalding Gray & Frances Conroy: https://youtu.be/3k_EBbZdUO0?si=s9cplv-YgJOfzuhC2003 Production with Paul Newman: https://youtu.be/gc1o9cGQ9_Q?si=Q-WfRjvvqvwXrguz https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Q2BwQ87nk/?mibextid=wwXIfr Theory of the Leisure Class - BBC 4 “In Our Time”https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/m001sdrtCentre for Popular Economics - on Thorstein Veblenhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsHzhcrYsTwComfort, Stretch & Panic Zoneshttps://www.bitesizelearning.co.uk/resources/comfort-zone-stretch-zone-panic-zone

Youssef & Emmet are back for season 2 with an exploration of queer space, bolsheviks, suffragettes, Thatcherites, Caryl Churchill, & the mysterious meanings of character doubling on the stage & in our imaginations.Community Corkboard:Hadestown tickets: https://mudds.ticketsplease.ca/hadestown-teen-edition/24 Hour PlaysParticipate: https://forms.gle/MGPDvuZmJo5aF9yN6 Audience: https://forms.gle/ye2AqU1VocsgrAmA6 Blood Brothers tickets: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/blood-brothers-musical/New Moon Magazine: https://newmoongirls.com/Youssef’s lecture notes: ⁠https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JkN-Ni6hb4GNaQgmXj9L95gM-s5aV7VR/view?usp=drivesdk⁠“Queer in Space: Kollantai Commune Archive”: ⁠https://youtu.be/tlXIK_oqjBQ⁠Judith Butler on Gender Theory (BigThink): ⁠https://youtu.be/UD9IOllUR4k⁠Angela Davis on Mainstream Feminism: ⁠https://youtu.be/bzQkVfO9ToQ⁠Patricia Hill Collins on ‘Controlling Images’: ⁠https://youtu.be/XVdbyhuAJEs⁠A Beginner’s Guide to the Suffragettes (Jenny Draper): ​​https://youtu.be/gqHLkmN-HMw?si=QCjPBPgjlXDrVCLL Top Girls, by Caryl Churchill (free to borrow online): https://archive.org/details/playsofseventies00corn/mode/1upTop Girls BBC productionIntro & Act 1: https://youtu.be/iGWD0r0f9Go?si=M0jw9nAHhnVtc098Act 2: https://youtu.be/LMoY_NthPdI?si=bbFNGRSnZ_3zkZ_uInterviews: https://youtu.be/hK7ebGa2XXY?si=B0Vto7baBZJkhE4d

Dearest otters, Youssef & Emmet are taking December off for some Unicorn/Hanukkah/thespian/snow/life adventures, & we'll be back in January for SEASON 2!!!

With a topic like time, we just couldn't rush it!***Emmet’s new website: http://emmet.ca/ Lion in Winter: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/the-lion-in-winter/Songs mentioned in this episode:Clock of the Heart by Culture Club: https://youtu.be/8tI1_KlO6xI?si=BLua_MYVyCDkP5NP Time Trades by Jeffrey Lewis: https://youtu.be/yBdka6rahH8?si=AoWNNq5FTHqica4SUnicorn Tolerance by the Mountain Goats: https://themountaingoats.bandcamp.com/track/unicorn-tolerance-2A 3-act, centuries-long love affair (abridged) by John Mabey: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2036314/a-3-act-centuries-long-love-affair-abridgedJosh Johnson robot comedy: https://youtu.be/xbOaJ2ZIOOk?si=IV762_w2_Sh7ZyF7 Rastus robot image: https://www.blackgate.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/1930-06-27-Richmond-IN-Item-1-rastus-illus.jpgRastus & Hattie at the Cleveland Public Theatre (photos & history): https://www.cptonline.org/performances/seasons/2019-2020/rastus-and-hattie/Rastus & Hattie on NPX (read the full script with an NPX account): https://newplayexchange.org/script/2003313/rastus-and-hattieRastus & Hattie on Next Stage Press (digital edition $12): https://next-stage-press.myshopify.com/products/rastus-and-hattie-digital-version-available-dec-1Lynching of Laura Nelson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Laura_and_L._D._NelsonDear Tilly Norwood: Some Blunt Advice, Actress to “Actress,” From Betty Gilpin: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/tilly-norwood-ai-actress-betty-gilpin-guest-essay-1236396217/“Another Kind of Time” - interview with Jenny Odell on Emergence podcast: https://emergencemagazine.org/conversation/another-kind-of-time/Long Now lecture on Saving Time by Jenny Odell: https://longnow.org/talks/02023-odell/Charlie Chaplin - Factory Work (Modern Times, 1936): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fOIk0-igeERSA Animate: David Harvey on “The Crises of Capitalism”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOP2V_np2c0&t=97sInterview with Kazu Haga on “Fierce Vulnerability” with SAND (podcast): https://scienceandnonduality.com/audio/trauma-in-a-time-of-collapse/Kazu Haga on Fierce Vulnerability: Healing from Trauma, Emerging from Collapse (UVic lecture): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNrrtKRkuNw

Youssef & Emmet discuss anarchy, Lanarky, playwriting, princesses, & taking your praxis to your local fairgrounds.You Can’t Take It With You tickets: https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/you-cant-take-it-with-you/(King Philip is probably cast by the time this is going up.)Watch this space for Elf updates (performances in November):: http://www.perthcommunitychoir.com/A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1cC27c01VkJoyful Militancy by Nick Montgomery and carla bergmanhttps://joyfulmilitancy.com/The Age of Insecurity by Astra Taylor : https://www.cbc.ca/radiointeractives/ideas/2023-cbc-massey-lectures-astra-taylorMutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pëtr Kropotkinhttps://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/petr-kropotkin-mutual-aid-a-factor-of-evolutionWhen Capital Leaves Town: https://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/when-capital-leaves-townMitch Hedberg’s car joke: https://open.spotify.com/track/0lAlETl2XvZ50459nyOaks?si=a0386368eb68480a Robert E. Lee’s descendant proves his lineage and pushes for ‘honest’ history of racism: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/01/us/robert-e-lee-anti-racism-descendantThe last queen of Hawaii: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lili%CA%BBuokalaniAnais Mitchell explains the process of writing “If It’s True”: https://open.spotify.com/track/0QYjsWVnZ2908ACNOoPJ5M?si=327357cce0774ade Stop Trying to Save the World, Michael Hobbes https://newrepublic.com/article/120178/problem-international-development-and-plan-fix-itFoundation for Intentional Community: https://www.ic.org/Emmet’s Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/emmlf 

Emmet & Youssef demonstrate our famous co-ordinated lateness, bringing you our August episode in September! Speaking of September, we're talking about one of the most popular Septembery shows in contemporary theatre, & digging into some classical philosophy concerning the nature of truth -- & even applying it to our beloved Hadestown.Community Corkboard:Hadestown teen edition auditions with Mississippi Mudds: ⁠https://www.mississippimudds.ca/auditions⁠You Can’t Take It With You tickets: ⁠https://studio-theatre-perth.ticketsplease.ca/you-cant-take-it-with-you/⁠Watch this space for Elf updates (performances in November): ⁠http://www.perthcommunitychoir.com/⁠Emmet’s Patreon: ⁠https://www.patreon.com/c/emmlf⁠ – All scripts posted are available to all patrons for a $3 monthly contribution, or individually priced.Kitchen Theatre Project on instagram: ⁠https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/⁠ or email Emmet directly: emlfcameron at gmail dot comHow to experience Proof by David Auburn: so many options! For locals, there is a print copy you can borrow from the Kitchen Theatre Project library at the Perkolator in Perth. For not-so-locals, you can likely find a copy either at your local library, or by asking somebody at your local community theatre. (Like I said, it’s a very popular show!) Speaking of community theatre, either David Auburn has intentionally loosened the copyright restrictions or he’s just not very litigious, because there are a bunch of videos of entire amateur productions of this play on YouTube that will come up if you search the title & author, which is fun to look at the range of ways that people have constructed the set & interpreted the characters, soundtrack, etc. You can also listen to the entire play free from LA Theatre Works: ⁠https://latw.org/title/proof⁠, or find this recording on your podcast player of choice, including bonus content about the math & psychological science behind the play, as part of the LATW Relativity series.Emmet learned the “dead dog” exercise from the podcast “Hot To Write A Play” with Mike Bartlett: ⁠https://shows.acast.com/how-to-write-a-play/episodes⁠What is a Woman? A Dialectic, A Diagram, A Rant, A Prayer by Kai Cheng Thom: ⁠https://kaichengthom.substack.com/p/what-is-a-woman⁠Non-Dualism is not Political Neutrality by Kai Cheng Thom: ⁠https://substack.com/home/post/p-171336092⁠David Harvey on the Contradictions of Capitalism (YouTube): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9dLcGJ5NI0⁠Understanding (De)alienation in Social Movements (Youssef’s dissertation where you can find more discussion on dialectics, Ch. 2 section 3): ⁠http://hdl.handle.net/1807/103362⁠

What's not exactly real & not exactly fake & lonely in an endless indoor love parade? This episode!***Upcoming Local Community Theatre:Love’s Labors Lost at the Crystal Palace in Perth (July 24, 25, 26): https://bardunderglass.com/ The Giant’s Garden at Station Theatre in Smiths Falls (August 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 23, 24): https://smithsfallstheatre.com/online-tickets-plays/Emmet’s new play fishbowl read CONFIRMED for August 27, 7-9PM at the Perk! Follow Kitchen Theatre Project for more details: https://www.instagram.com/kitchentheatreproject/Credit to Hank Green for the original (musical) concept of Moneys With Pants: https://youtu.be/RjavzsPC1C4?si=QMYLO7xdK1sD6x33 Social Constructs (or, 'What is A Woman, Really?') (Philosophy Tube on YouTube): ⁠https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koud7hgGyQ8&t=308s⁠Real Americans Don’t Eat with their Hands (Shenuque Tissera on Instagram): ⁠https://www.instagram.com/reel/DLvA3qlRdBp/?igsh=MTdlYXdjbWIzNXhhbQ==⁠The Social Construction of Reality: A treatise in the sociology of knowledge by Peter Berger & Thomas Luckmann (1966): ⁠https://archive.org/details/BergerSocialConstructionOfReality_201901⁠Outside of Here (abridged): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11GeoV2clGYOutside of Here on the Pipeline-Collective website: https://www.pipeline-collective.com/outside-of-hereOutside of Here script on NPX: https://newplayexchange.org/script/2034804/outside-of-here-a-12-hour-playPlaywright Claudia Barnett’s website: https://www.claudia-barnett.com/Endurance art references:Rachel Grunwald’s production of Marathon ‘33 by June Havoc drew comparisons between depression era dance marathons & reality TV: https://rachelgrunwald.com/shows/marathon-33/Julia Butterfly Hill & Luna the redwood: https://juliabutterflyhill.com/luna/Marina Abramović describes her work (audio) – content note, her work includes acts of pain & violence: https://www.moma.org/audio/playlist/243

Colonization is so last century...or many centuries. But we're still not over it.Emmet brings the play Serving Elizabeth by Marcia Johnson & Youssef offers ideas from Frantz Fanon, Edward Said, & more to help us shake off the mess the monarchy made.***Barn Door Productions website, check back for updates about Love's Labour's Lost: https://www.barndoorproductions.cahttps://bardunderglass.com/Running is political (Instagram: @hilatheearth): ⁠https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKiXAJuMuNS/?igsh=bWVxNGp2ZDk0bzVm⁠ Bramble Theatre Collective: http://www.brambletheatre.caEmmet’s play Sayle Island, not exactly on the New Play Exchange: https://newplayexchange.org/users/84742/emmet-lf-cameronServing Elizabeth on PlayMe (free audio version): https://www.playmepodcast.com/our-shows/serving-elizabethMore info about the play & how to purchase the script: https://mqlit.ca/plays/serving-elizabeth/Rent the Stratford production of Serving Elizabeth video: ​​https://www.broadwayondemand.com/rentals/c309a2ea-2f20-4a8c-bb9b-7f392e34e072?aff=2024socialInterview with Rachel Forbes, set & costume designer at Thousand Islands Playhouse: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3HkJ1FTxVO8gD5G7sm1Bt4?si=Xa4w-oLZQp2t37QA85cxXA Cuppa, More or Les: https://youtu.be/O0CV0bUojFI?si=GridtuT5NUIrpiO8 Not My Idea (children's book/film about whiteness & racism) on Kanopy: https://www.kanopy.com/en/perthunionlibrary/video/11404392 & on the author’s website: https://anastasiahigginbotham.com/not-my-idea/Decolonizing the mind: The life and work of Frantz Fanon (CBC Ideas): https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/decolonizing-the-mind-the-life-and-work-of-frantz-fanon-1.6609671 Interview with Edward Said, Directed by Sut Jhally, 1998: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVC8EYd_Z_g Youssef’s lecture notes: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zhi7a0auLBWSCkkf1gN0Tk7-4xYkKJXd/view?usp=drive_link

Youssef & Emmet discuss the impossibility of collaborating under capitalism, the impossibility of not collaborating in theatre, & question the avoidability of collaboration with corporations.Show Notes:A short history of neoliberalism, a speech by Susan George (Transnational Institute, TNI): ⁠https://www.tni.org/en/article/a-short-history-of-neoliberalism⁠Neoliberalism: The idea that swallowed the world by Stephen Metcalf (The Guardian): ⁠https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/aug/18/neoliberalism-the-idea-that-changed-the-world⁠David Harvey: The persistence of neoliberalism despite its loss of legitimacy (The Real News Network): ⁠https://youtu.be/KvPNOp97x-k?si=4PjXZ3Q-ZBQ9uzTl⁠Mechanical vs. Organic Solidarity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGargZd9KkQ⁠Tyranny of Rights by Brewster Kneen: https://web.archive.org/web/20180812212152/http://ramshorn.ca/the-tyranny-of-rights⁠Tony Kushner's essay "With A Little Help From My Friends" is published in some editions of Angels in America, & in a collection of his work called Thinking About The Longstanding Problems of Virtue & Happiness. Locals in the Perth area can borrow it from the Kitchen Theatre Project library at the Perkolator Creative Collective, & locals elsewhere can probably find it in a public or academic library near you.Poor Theatre & Theatre of the Oppressed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sSLz5t7a5MAnne Washburn discusses the collaborative creation process of Mr. Burns: https://open.spotify.com/episode/7uErMi99Ow120BqdqzmkdL?si=Eu3pVUXbS-2pcvnVw8t9SQ Site Specific & Devised Theatre in Lebanon: https://open.spotify.com/episode/31amR4xxzOJRAiTAThUWqf?si=FHDOkGKvQPe1G873Y1WIQQDevised Theatre & Collective Creation: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6g6C20KRjexoPg1qBzzNNH?si=UbgwHdVaSAeL9Oy6IajZNg Alberta artist building a fence that keeps pipelines away: https://www.cbc.ca/arts/the-alberta-artist-building-a-fence-that-keeps-pipelines-away-1.7517733

This week we're joined for green room office hours by special guest poet (& Youssef's eldest) Naimah Celeste to discuss revolution (& revolución). We're throwing sand in the sea or walking into it with love...but is it all just academic?Spoiler alert: Emmet retells the entire plot of Hadestown between 26:45 & 50:00. You'll find the link to the OBC up top of the show notes if you wanna catch up quick & come back to us.Show Notes:Hadestown Original Broadway Cast: https://open.spotify.com/album/1J1yxODbNlqKbwRqJxYJUP?si=fB14QCrSSjqEobf_Ld3ougSuper Mega All-Inclusive Hadestown Playlist: https://deadline.com/2020/06/off-broadway-theaters-brooklyn-openyourlobby-restrooms-george-floyd-black-lives-matter-protesters-1202950571/#OpenYourLobby: https://deadline.com/2020/06/off-broadway-theaters-brooklyn-openyourlobby-restrooms-george-floyd-black-lives-matter-protesters-1202950571/The Diggers (1960s theatre troupe & community anarchists): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers_(theater)“We Are Power” by John Trudell (July 18, 1980): https://www.historyisaweapon.com/defcon1/trudellwearepower.htmlJohn Trudell on Becoming Human: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=180vRsMmqNIInterview with Tyson Yunkaporta: https://www.becomingdenizen.com/podcast/yarn-with-tyson-yunkaportaOverview of Political Process Theory (or Political Opportunity Structures): https://www.thoughtco.com/political-process-theory-3026451https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_opportunityLaundering Black Rage by Too Black: https://www.blackagendareport.com/laundering-black-rageAnd the book; https://www.routledge.com/Laundering-Black-Rage-The-Washing-of-Black-Death-People-Property-and-Profits/Black-Mowatt/p/book/9781032573779

In our 0th episode (the preamble, or the AT RISE stage directions, if you will), Emmet & Youssef write new bios for each other, reveal how they got into theory & theatre respectively, & draw the topic for the next episode out of the zipper pouch.Episode 0 Show Notes:CBC Ideas Podcast: Say Yes: Improvisation in Art & Life https://www.cbc.ca/radio/ideas/say-yes-the-improvisation-of-art-and-life-1.7461787Theatres Act 1968: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1968/54Jenny Munday & the Playwrights Atlantic Resource Centre: https://playwrightsatlantic.ca/news/remembering-jenny-munday-1953-2021/Erving Goffman and presentation of self: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Z0XS-QLDWMSymbolic Interactionism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut9PnCIprm4Theory of Mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_mind