THE PERSONAL OBJECT AS AN ACTIVATOR FOR THE POTENTIAL OF RELATING

Abstract

This M.A. thesis researches how the personal object is an activator for the potential to relate in the theatre performance HIER, HERE, TADY. In this participative performance personal objects invite their owners, audience and performer, to research their everydayness. The performance is a meeting point for people and objects to relate. The first chapter explains the role of the performer. She opens up the meeting point by the dramaturgical propositions she makes. She proposes the time and space to sit with the personal object and she can facilitate or provoke the exploration. The second chapter accounts for the role of the audience. In this performance every member of the audience is a participant, inhabiting a creative and co-authorial relationship to the work through attentive observation and attentive action. The third chapter clarifies how the third element, the personal objects of the performer and participating audience members transform into theatrical objects. And how these theatrical objects activate the participants to research their everydayness by relating to it, to each other and to other objects of the same kind. When humans sit with and explore their personal objects, they can reveal, evoke and elicit their content. The general conclusion explains what the conditions are for the personal object to become an activator for potential of relating, as examined in the performance HIER, HERE, TADY.