--and this just came to me-- is that it is a virtual reality. And I don't mean the kind of virtual reality like some wired-glove and goggles video game. I mean virtual in the physics sense, as in "it can take any of a number of forms."
The true power of these shows is that it can be as real as anybody wants. And I don't know how powerful I want them to be. That's the artistic question here. What if you completely ran your theater? What if you could make that audience feel anything? What would you do with that power? And can it be misused? By what precise methods do you avoid that? How do you avoid harming your audience while still covering this...unfortunate material?
It's a weird way to run a show. How do you write a show that can both plausibly exist and not exist at the same time? I think that if the artist just allows himself to be... that the implementation will be handled naturally, as the necessary form that the material just desires to take. He really has no control over the implementation.
This whole act is very weird. (The art people are going to know exactly what I'm talking about. The intelligence types likely won't get it. They don't think like that.)
It's like my whole...thing...is analog in a digital world. It's a quantity that exists somewhere between two lighted bars on a cassette deck level meter.
I don't even know what's it's supposed to be. What do you people want from me? Instant answers?
