Engagement
A person can be fully committed to understand a specific text, to play a game, to build a place up to a point that the self more or less vanishes in this passionate attention. Engagement is more and more connected to notions of authenticity. One can be as authentic on a piece of land as on Facebook. Engagement is a qualifying factor for authentity in on- and offline worlds.
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Being witness and bearing witness
For MacFadyen the process between being witness and bearing witness is defined by gathering other…
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Being host to a witness
How to meet a witness, depends on what the witness is witness to. If it's to the destruction of…
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The good witness
For MacFaydyen a good witness is critical to investigating or reporting. A good witness is someone…
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Fact and fiction
In addition to being a producer of investigative documentaries MacFaydyen is also director of…
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Relating to facts: truth affects consciousness
Where a judge has to evaluate evidence, an investigative journalist also has to assemble and convey…
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State power erodes reporting
Nation states now control much more than they did before. In the last century the state could not
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Bloggers telling the truth
Given current technology the Internet facilitates millions of bloggers offering stories that could…
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Good stories are fueled by emotions
In good stories, finds Lavery, you feel a story and every secene is about slightly more than it…
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Robust structure for ‘magic in the air’
As playwright Lavery suggests a rhythm, using her sense of where people’s behavior needs silence
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Writing a play: rhythm in actions that change characters
When confronted with the definition of a play as a system of time, place, relations and actions
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Trusting to Act
When rehearsing her play Stockholm, which is about the relationship of two people who are very much…
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Presence of actors
An actor is believable when he inhabits his role, according to Lavery. In the rehearsal process…
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Witnessing in theatre
Lavery’s first association with the word ‘witnessing’ is a witness in trial. Witnessing is not a…
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While news passed away
Its more then a year ago since Israel attacked Gaza. I have been there just after the war and met…
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Embedded in a cocon
At 3am at night a hundred Iraqi and American special forces attack the house in Tal Afar, a city in…
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Climate refugees in Drowned Land
Drowned land, its cold, very cold in Bangladesh, especially if you only wear a Sari. I am arriving…