Smudged and Athenian Democracy

I have spoken before in the rehearsal room about my inkling that Smudged has something to do with words like 'forum' and 'democratic'.

The results of my just finished Wikipedia journey are the following points and links for further reading:

- Smudged is Three-Dimensional.
- Smudged is a discussion.
- Smudged champions freedom.
- The power of Smudged is derived from 'humanity'.
- The success of Smudged will be measured by its significance to people.

(I'm sure there are more).

These points are derived from the links between the play and innovations/perspectives which flourished during Athenian Democracy - not that I am an expert but apparently this is the most prolific period of Ancient Greece in terms of its development of Western Thought (including theatre but also mathmatics, philosophy, politics etc.), and it is possible that our process finds its foundational logic here, and which is finding its way into my ideas on visual design (kaleidoscopic), staging (in-the-round), particiapation (live Twitter, this blog), themes (Social Networking, Metatheatre), sound (authentic foley vs. superficial teen girl rock), and performance style (Brecht?).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenian_democracy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristophanes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Birds_%28play%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Dionysus

This is also worth reading:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metatheatre

Special thanks to the democratic medium of Wikipedia for providing the source material for this post.