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TimDevin / TheConversationTalkAmongstYourselvesVersion

 

Tim Devin
(2008)
page last updated Wed,  8 Oct 2008,  6:00am PDT

 

 

Description
“The Conversation” is an interactive performance piece for two (or more) people. It can be performed in public (either as an announced performance, or guerrilla-style). Or it can be performed at home, or over the phone, when no one else is watching.  “The Conversation” has two variations: the “talk-amongst-yourselves” version, and the “talk-to-Tim” version.

 

 

Keywords:   conversations, text score
Duration:   variable minutes
# of Performers:   2 or more

 

 

Files

 

TheConversationtalk-amongst-yourselves-version.doc

 

 

Score / Notes

 

1.Find a friend, or a stranger, who would like to help you perform this piece.

 

2.Over the phone (or email, or in person), discuss what you’d like to talk about in your Conversation performance. (For Conversation-performance-planning suggestions, see below).

 

3.Once you’ve agreed on what you will talk about, write out what you’ll actually say during the Conversation.

 

4.When both of you are happy with the dialogue of the Conversation, act it out at a time and place that works for both of you. The performance can take place in public (either as an announced performance, or guerrilla-style). Or it can take place at home, or over the phone, when no one else is watching.

 

 

(Note: when performing your Conversation, feel free to either act it out from memory, or to just read from the script.)

 

Can’t find anyone to help you perform this piece? Then maybe you’d like to contact Tim at tdevin@yahoo.com , and help perform “The Conversation (the talk-to-Tim version)”

 

 

Conversation-performance-planning suggestions for “The Conversation (the talk-amongst-yourselves version)”

 

When planning your Conversation performance, it might be helpful to consider the following:

 

1.What do you and the other person have in common? (Not sure? Then ask them what they are interested in. Or about their daily life. Or what they did this past weekend.)

 

2.What do you and the other person disagree on?

 

3.How long would you like this performance to last?

 

4.Will you need any real (or imaginary) props for this performance?

 

5.Do you know this person well enough to be honest with them? Or should you use your I-don’t-know-you-very-well persona?

 

6.What type of setting will it be performed in? (Most people talk about more personal topics in private spaces; and about more impersonal topics in public spaces. Although reversing that could be interesting, too.)

 

7.It might be helpful to include the normal features of normal conversations—such as pauses, jokes, misunderstandings, stories, sudden changes-of-subject… as well as those awkward moments, when both people talk at once…or those other awkward moments, when one person realizes the other one isn’t really paying attention.

 

8.For inspiration, it might be helpful to eavesdrop on strangers when planning your Conversation—or maybe just paying close attention to your own real-life conversations.

 

 

 

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