Adventures of a Discoverer

Back in the beginning of the XX century, when movies and movie theaters came to be, all movies were silent. However, the (then new) Hollywood movie studios realized that playing music as the movie was shown made for a much better experience, and so in the 1920's most movie theaters would have a piano (or, in the fancy ones, a pipe organ) playing music during the movie to accentuate what the public was seeing on the screen. At that time, the brand new Paramount Theater was opened in Seattle, to provide the city with a luxurious venue to exhibit the latest hits from Hollywood. As part of that, a huge pipe organ was set up in the theater to play the music for the silent movies of the time. Eventually, the Paramount Theater switched to live theater and musicals, which it does to this day. However, on one Monday a month, the Paramount will revert to its original purpose, and show a silent movie, on its "Silent Movie Mondays" . I checked that out yesterday. The movie for last n

Yesterday night I was able to check out a really cool performance, the play "The Forever Project" at the On The Boards theater. This theater is a small venue in Seattle dedicated to show contemporary performances and experimental art, which I love, where you can see brand new ideas and experiments in art. This "play" - if it can be called as such - matches perfectly that. Peggy Piacenza is an artist that uses all her past life experiences (for example, she used to be a stripper before dedicating solely to art) in creating new experiences that go beyond what you normally see in live action theater. The play in question, "The Forever Project", is exactly that. There is no stage nor public seating: instead, you have a small number of swiveling chairs set in a big dark room. There are four huge screens delimiting the set, and the action happens around the spectators, hence why the swiveling chairs. There is a combination of video in the screens with contempor