Summer 2011 / July 15 – August 14
@SparkStudio
I like to watch. Seriously, people watching is one of my favorite pastimes. I love making up stories about people, giving them funny voices, imagining where they’re off to; there’s something inherently dramatic about strangers. They’re a mystery. Who knows when you’re passing right by a world famous violinist, or your best friend’s high school sweetheart, or a world traveller… or a murderer.
When we get lost in the world of our imagination, it’s easy to take minor everyday occurrences and blow them out of proportion. And if we’re right, no one would believe us. Such is the world of Jeff (LB Jeffries) who thinks he sees a murderer. What’s fascinating to watch is a man frustrated with the world around him, his struggle to be taken seriously, and then to second guess ourselves. Is he just imagining it? I couldn’t think of anything more intriguing, when I can’t even trust what I see.
And we get to take audiences into his apartment, to experience the frustrations up being cooped up in a studio overlooking the people below. To watch their lives unfold and to see perhaps more than we should see. Rear Window reminds us that we make theater every day when we see someone in an interesting outfit, or bump into a stranger, or try to make sense of the world around us by telling our own version of the story.
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