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 Transitions into verbatim monologues utilize household objects.  Hard to differentiate between script and verbatim. Lots of monologues Interesting use of movement, less interpretive but it is still there. The main character tells a story, relates it to some larger concept, listens to an interview. Repeat. Windows are screens. Repeated ideas/themes: escape. rising, changing, opportunity, childhood, between two worlds. Immersed audience.  It is apparent during the Mobile theater production that The Paper Birds wished to let the story speak for itself, and did little hand holding. The show was very focused on introspection, utilizing verbatim theater tactics and the actor's monologues to reveal themes of class mobility (or lack thereof) and how the struggles of a modern-day capitalist society affects our minds. Due to The Paper Birds' interest in education through their shows as opposed to drawing out a catharsis, much of the show's verbatim theater felt very disconnected i...

 The Paper Birds and verbatim theater techniques have a lot of interesting ideas and theories. I particularly like their focus on tackling large issues by focussing on a stimulus and creating a sort of thought-provoking scene. I am especially intrigued by their techniques involved with research and umbrella themes and I am interested to see how much more can be achieved when we spend some time critically thinking and researching a topic, as opposed to going off our gut feelings. I would definitely be interested in implementing aspects of verbatim theater into some of our classwork and I've drawn a lot of parallels with our lyric movement scenes. I believe all of this work will help our theater especially movement-wise come off in a more thought-provoking manner and more sophisticated.