Issue: Why are we doing it now? What are we doing it for?

Convener(s): Fiona

Participants: Fiona, Patricia, Greg + 5

Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations:

• What is unique about theatre over other art forms?

Live

               Offers the opportunity for a multi-sensory response.

• Is audience participation the way forward?

Participation v manipulation eg. Copenhagen conferencing\ theatre in galleries – good

Margate Exodus – questionable

• Do the audience need to know they are participating?
• Can we still reflect back at the world fairly immediately – is that part of our uniqueness?
• How do funding and risk-taking co-exist?
• Are we using the art form to challenge ourselves?
• WHAT CAN WE TAKE FROM PANTOMIME?
• Given that we live in such a technological world, can we really capture life now using this art form?
• Is making small,intimate pieces the answer?
• Make it free.
• Can we, like painters, make a product and sell it to theatres as it is?
• We’re doing it to bring people together – to draw in the community.
• Is what we are doing building a community for that period in time?