Performance is study. It's an incredible thing. You spend time pondering and learning about some interesting and far-flung bits of knowledge. Example- We were rehearsing a scene last week. Thomas More and his wife Alice (your friendly neighborhood blogger) are having a conversation. We are interrupted by the Common Man and told that our time is running out. We have only two minutes left. This lead to several questions and an interesting discussion. How would they have known that? Were there clocks in the 1530's? There were, but they did not have a minute or second hand.
Can you imagine? We take much for granted in every day life-at least I do. As much as I berate technology for the years its taken off of my life in frustration, it is an amazing thing to know the time down to the minute. It's almost a cliche really. There's a bomb on the bus, school, and/or train and you've got only 10 seconds to cut the red wire. --If we didn't have the time measuring technology we do, the Lethal Weapon movies wouldn't have gotten past the first one. They would have spent their time arguing about how much time they had left and blown up before they could cut the blue wire. There would have been no 24. Keifer Sutherland's career might have stalled at Young Guns.
I ponder currency. Just how much is 30 shillings anyway? Is this a large sum of money to be betting on a sporting event. While I have no idea what it may have meant to the characters of our play, you could find out what it means to a Londoner today with the currency converter on this site.
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