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I'm a director of the theatre group Foolish People. Foolish People is about the missing link, the piece that's always left out. Hermetica, esotericism, gnosticism. When people connect with the word, we're interested in how and what that connection is. The numinous. If people come away from our events without fundamentally changing, we've failed.

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We work with open-source myths: for example, Terra Incognita brought 50 artists from all over the world together using a source code of myths to connect the work. They all contributed work, and each work linked into the narrative which Foolish People manifested via actors.


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We've just finished a short run of Dead Language at the ICA. It's a show about how entertainment is used to overlay reality with a layer of filth that prevents people having a numinous connection with their own narrative.

Posted by admin on November 6, 2007
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Sebastian Mary on paragraph 3:

I don’t think I’ll ever forget watching 20 Tracy Emins fighting 20 Andy Warhols to the death under a strobe light…

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November 6, 2007 2:11 pm
Sebastian Mary on paragraph 1:

You’re setting the bar pretty high there, no? Do you think this goes for any audience, no matter what their preconceptions/context/cultural frame of reference, or does it only work if you focus on affecting people with a more familiar frame of reference that you can target more closely?

While story is an incredibly powerful way of influencing people, a story’s ability to influence someone is directly proportional to how much its listener identifies with it. Think of a small child being told a ‘Once upon a time’ story calculated to deter them from doing something they shouldn’t be doing. So to what extent do you focus your stories on particular frames of reference/audiences, and do you work at all to ensure that your audiences identify with the story?

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November 6, 2007 2:16 pm
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