Imagine a scenario:
You are a slightly tired, overly hungry, mildly headached teenager on your way to a German play. Your room key is locked and so you arrive at the beautiful Berliner Ensemble theatre in a sundress and running sneakers.
Yesterday at the show I discovered an interesting phenomenon. Yes, there is emotional or mental discomfort, but there is also physical discomfort. When I first wrote my blog post I had in mind the more mental discomfort. Perhaps viewing a performance that addresses a subject matter you are keen to forget or often avoid. These scenarios can have great power for an audience member.
However, I had forgotten the equal power that physical discomfort can have on a person. In school this year, one of my teachers was very big on not only mental/emotional discomfort, but also physical. We tend to live in a generation the always has a solution for every problem. If it’s too cold in a room we put on a sweater, or too hot we turn on the AC. Which can be an amazing thing, I mean we’ve evolved so far as human beings that we literally can solve every little problem that we might have in a day. The only problem then is, sometimes it can be good for these things not to be solved. Like mental discomfort, it can make us learn about ourselves or the world in ways that we wouldn’t without this uncomfortable experience.
Therefore I choose to be grateful for the experience that I had last night. Never mind it being an incredibly done production, not only technically but also with jaw dropping direction and very effective actors, what I felt last night was quite hard to describe through just words. Therefore I will try to explain through the list below...
A catalyst to a list of things in the same vain, that make me slightly physically uncomfortable:
- eating too much bread in too tight an outfit
- wearing running shoes and a sundress at the same time
- too much teenage boy BO + axe, not enough shower
- rubbing up against a moist stranger
- having wet feet, then stepping in sand, then putting your socks on
- sticking to a public transportation plastic seat
- wearing a sock that will not stop sliding down in your shoe
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