Terrible Beauty

Douglas Davis: Terrible Beauty

"Terrible Beauty", my third major website, a work of interactive global theater is so complex and difficult to explain that so far I have had to move it along, slowly, on my own means. But everytime I perform it and earn a fee the work advances. Among the hosts for it have been the Information Technology Center in New York, Artspace in Dublin, Ireland, The Lab in San Francisco, and Transmediale in Berlin. I am seeking now a theater or site to leap the work into the year 2000, perhaps in Europe. And I mean to end it with a two-city performance later in the year, which will deal in a fairly radical way not only with the concept of back/front, but with the audience. In this last work the two audiences will confront each other, for once, as seen from the eye level of the performer in each space...And resolve the narrative plot on their own, sans the author/creator. The scale and reach of all these pieces required some form of institutional support, for all sorts of reasons, not least that I am neither President, King, nor Slave.
Source: http://www.afsnitp.dk/udefra/1/dd/museum.html

"The whole point of tonight is to figure out what is real and what is virtual in our lives...to distinguish between the truth of our situation and the snow jobs being fed us at the end of this century...in order to survive. yet... to even begin this survival game requires that you, the audience, rise out of your self-satisifed stupor, wake up, and JOIN THE GAME..."

Resources:
http://www.afsnitp.dk/udefra/1/dd/museum.html
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://here.is/TERRIBLEBEAUTY

Terrible Beauty - Scripts:
http://web.archive.org/web/20060812035404/http://here.is/TERRIBLEBEAUTY

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