ABSTRACT
The goals for the project were lofty and as with any art form difficult to assess upon completion. The workshops conducted by Diablomundo began in October 1993 and primarily involved the graduate students in the MFA acting and design programs at the University of Tennessee. Workshop members explored how to theatricalize time, by using their physical movement to represent the passage of time on the sun dial. Deconstructing the aesthetic has to do with an examination of how meaning is conveyed to, and produced for an audience. Conveying meaning is primarily a function of content--the actor takes the playwright’s lines and interprets them to provide a meaning or message to the audience. The use of circles in the set and technical elements—the sun, the cloth which encircled the globe painted on the stage floor where much of the acting took place, the circles of light on the actors in the prologue—complemented the physical circles of movement employed throughout.
