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TO INDEXAfter each performance I record my thoughts of the performance. For two reasons. If I do the same performance again I will need to know the things that I may encounter. The other reason is it helps me in planning my next performance. Especially if it is in a similar venue. They are not in any order of importance. They are just in the order that I thought about them. Jack Bowman, October 30, 2006.
1. The stage was better than expected. I knew it would be raised a couple feet but didn't know it was going to be about 20 feet wide by about 8 feet deep. I didn't expect the spotlight. I expected even lighting.
2. The backstage area was excellent.
3. I only met Tracy and Heather four hours before the performance. This provides spontaneity in the performance because there isn't enough time to approach it as theater.
4. The Videographer, Rob Avery and Still photographers Katie Niemi-Adams and Heather Reid did an excellent job. Because of them I was able to get the stills and video on the web site within about 36 hours of the performance.
5. Thinking of "Fred" (the RedQueenPrinciple.com internet site) as a separate (invisible) performer allowed or inspired me to make a better website.
6. Because Heather expressed an early interest in the performance I was encouraged to write the "Alice in the Garden of Time" more thoroughly and quickly. I later wrote the Alternate performance that was actually used because Jatasha Osborn considered doing it. She could not perform it because of other obligations so this left it complete and open for Tracy and Louie at the last minute.
7. The "discovery" that the combined performance was the perfect performance because it was a multitude of individual performances that could be combined or separated and still stand as a performance art piece allowed me to put more links to the site.
8. The addition of the invisible performer "Fred" was a quantum jump in my performance art pieces. I had considered the Internet important in several of my performances and critical in the "God Failed" poem but had never considered it in itself a performer.
9. Almost all my communication was done through the Internet. Most on MySpace.com because it allows you to see if the addressee read their mail. Only six phone calls were involved and three of them were initiated by Leigh Waltz (the Performance Art Festival Organizer). None of the six were initiated by me. Regular Internet email was only with Leigh Waltz since all the performers had a MySpace site. This was not a goal of mine for this performance but I had used it as a goal during another "Plato's Cave" performance.
10. Audience size was more than 100 but less than 200. Perhaps 150.
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