Theater! Theater! (Used to be religious: part-to-whole agenda)

Graham Paul wrote:

Walking up on Sunset Mtn,
I was thinking (for a moment)
about theatre as a place where
it was safe to really see
(thea, right?), where we go
to attend [efficiently[ to what
is really happening, because
usually we filter out so much
noise we end up filtering out
important signals as well.

Also thinking about the notion
of "coherence" in art and how
that quality might aid in seeing
(don't think "coherence" in this
case is quite the same as we
might use it to describe, say,
a logical system of thought--
though, frankly, I'm not sure
how to define "coherence"
in art).

Anyway.I like the idea of
"school"
qualifying as a "theatron"--
maybe thinking that way helps
distinguish between what aids
Liberal Art and what doesn't.

(slightly reformatted to
fit my screed. SS)

Theater was religious, originally, true?

Catharsis: purgation of fear AND pity
--both, not just one (they feed on
each other) so as to be able to see
without those 2 interfering as they
naturally do?

Purgatory: purification. Washed in the
blood of the spam.

The PLAY'S the thing, damnit.

I agree with you: "coherence" (and consistency)
are words that mean one think among logicians;
radically different and incommensurate things
among artists. Need we argue?

And yet: the same words.

No wonder we confuse each other, collapsing
and conflating realms of activity, yet using/ abusing
the same words across the curriculum.

Can't be helped. But maybe seen (theatrics) &
factored inn? Talked about a lot so as to at least
be able to track the confusion? Got to be talking
IT out and out and out. Converse-action as
opposed to all that other kind of action..

OR what's a college for?

To Dramatize?

Best, Sam