The Story: Citing Sources
Posted on | July 26, 2007 | No Comments
Consider this:
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“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” Napoleon Bonaparte (French General, Politician and Emperor 1769-1821)
- The RadioLab episodes on identity (particularly the “Story of Me” section) and memory.
- Elizabeth Loftus’ experiments in false or contaminated memories.
- The role of emotion in the process of memory.
- The TV series “Dream On“
Is not “who we are,” then, the story we are constantly creating about ourselves?
Is not what causes us to act our past as applied to our present?
If the past – i.e. our memories – are really something we are constantly creating in the present, don’t we have a tremendous power for change?
Isn’t all art a way of seeing the world – i.e. an expression of someone’s story?
If we have the ability to climb inside a different story – cf. empathy, schizophrenia, the actor in the role, TV obsessions – is it not possible, then, for a story well told to cause participants to reexamine, retool, and retell their stories?
Can’t theatre really change the world, one story at a time?
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