"Torch Song" Feedback Session

All faculty, students, and staff are invited to attend and share their experience with the production as audience member and ask questions of the production team. Pizza will be served. 

This Production Feedback Session is meant to be a time for the production team, actors, designers, to receive feedback on their work in the production.  Our department productions are meant to serve as experiential labs for work introduced in the classroom.  We consider our students’ work in production to be artistic research and wish to provide arenas to discuss their creative process, successes, and challenges in the spirit of academic inquiry.  It is our hope that through these dialogues we are developing skills as engaged and reflective arts practitioners.

The Feedback Session will be co-mediated by Benjamin Britton from Lamar Dodd School of Art and George Contini from Theatre and Film Studies.   Britton is co-leader this semester of a Faculty Learning Community that explores methods to encourage constructive reflection and generative inquiry for creative practitioners.

The session will have two parts. 

1. The artists are able to ask specific questions of audience responders in regards to aspects of their work in the production.  These questions will be collected prior to the event by Prof. Contini. He will serve as scribe for event.  Prof. Britton will help audience responders in delivering helpful responses.
2. The audience will submit questions for the artists to consider regarding their work.   Ben Britton will help audience responders in framing neutral questions for artists. The goal is to gather as many questions from the responders about the production as possible. The artists will have the opportunity to answer a few of the questions they choose.

We’ll wrap up with a general overview of discussion and list any major points that may want to be discussed down the line within the dept.  All questions received from audience are going to be taken back to the actors' and designers' studios for further reflection and research.