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I still haven’t figured out that definition problem with Remix. I’ve actually kept on thinking about it and applied it to different fields of the arts. One which I thought rather interesting and about which we haven’t talked about so far at all is theatre.
So there again I have this problem of figuring out where the boundaries are, what is considered a Remix in theatre and what isn’t? Is it already a Remix if some director takes a script from a playwright and turns it into a play? But then that is the purpose of scripts written for theatre. But still, even if the same script is turned into several plays at different playhouses, each single one of them will be different from the other. They might have all used the same source, but the outcome can be very varying. So is this only a field of creativity and explained with how the director interprets the play and therefore directs it? Or is it a Remix as the written dialogues are brought onto a stage and thus brought to life? Is it maybe a Remix because each time a different context for the same text is used? If making a movie out of a book is a Remix then turning a play into a performance definitely is a Remix as well.
Something I find much easier to classify as Remix in theatre is when the director doesn’t put a performance on stage titled for example by Ibsen but instead after Ibsen. The big difference in those two little words is that after is a give away that not the original script has been used, but instead only some parts of it or maybe even only the main themes. It is clear that the director used Ibsen as source of inspiration to create something new, which in my opinion turns the play into a Remix.
