Since it was my first time visiting the New York Public Library For the Performing Arts, I was completely amazed at the amount of data that has been stored in their system/ library. I had this nostalgic type of feeling when Doug showed us the floppy disk. It was really interesting to see the history of a production being edited. Though Doug’s presentation, I’ve realized how amazing an archive could be. It also made me realized the amount of effort and time that these historians/librarians took to attain the data they have collected up to now. Because of this experience I’ve become more aware of how to use an archive, and it has given me insight on my topic.

Since scripts were held to an immense value, do you believe the effects of a story were more effective to grasp the audience attention? Or did aesthetics take a more salient role in impressing the crowd?

The Bacchae was a depiction of a tragic Greek play centered around Dionysus. There are various themes of comedy and duality; the strive for freedom in society. This dramatic play  was created to portray the relation between Greek Theater and society. From reading The Bacchae I noticed the aspects of balance and opposition in society, and the verbalization of the text was quite interesting.

Present day Theater is immensely influenced by oral and writing cultures before the 1700. The evolution of the writing and language system before the 1700 has shown to be effective when creating compelling dramatic performances. My question to you is: Since oral, ritual, and shamanic performance have helped to improve aesthetics and various dynamic performances of today’s Theater. Do you believe that oral verbalization before the 1700 had a more salient impact on today’s performances, or was it the component of written verbalization that had a preeminent influence? Perhaps its just an enigma of contrasting opinions on theater.