Comments on: How do we Succeed in bringing Storytelling to Audiences? http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2011/09/28/how-do-we-succeed-in-bringing-storytelling-to-audiences/ Interviewing the best of the Storytelling Community. Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:26:13 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Elizabeth Blackwell http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2011/09/28/how-do-we-succeed-in-bringing-storytelling-to-audiences/comment-page-1/#comment-201918 Elizabeth Blackwell Sun, 04 Dec 2011 20:50:02 +0000 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/?p=3260#comment-201918 Amazing and splendid. I am regular reader of your website "Art of Storytelling Show' which is spirited and gives anyone the idea about the process of storytelling in easy and lucid manner. Thanks . Well I recently came a new type of storytelling that is brought up by a website called papakali.com where it allows the readers to contribute their own versions of stories that will be added to the already existing stories of the South Sound. Amazing and splendid. I am regular reader of your website “Art of Storytelling Show’ which is spirited and gives anyone the idea about the process of storytelling in easy and lucid manner. Thanks . Well I recently came a new type of storytelling that is brought up by a website called papakali.com where it allows the readers to contribute their own versions of stories that will be added to the already existing stories of the South Sound.

]]> By: Charles Johnson http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/2011/09/28/how-do-we-succeed-in-bringing-storytelling-to-audiences/comment-page-1/#comment-194780 Charles Johnson Fri, 30 Sep 2011 23:45:07 +0000 http://www.artofstorytellingshow.com/?p=3260#comment-194780 There are no rules, if calling what you do "refrigerator" would get you a bigger audience, then by all means do it. This is billed as theater: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmX9N8C8nko But, so is this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI6HxUueYhU I think storytelling audiences come in expecting to see one person, telling a story, but theater audiences are far more open to the unusual and avant-garde. I don't think a modern theater audience would consider a traditional storyteller "not theater". Here's Charlie Ross again, just because I love his work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d98XXlvZalE There are no rules, if calling what you do “refrigerator” would get you a bigger audience, then by all means do it.

This is billed as theater:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmX9N8C8nko

But, so is this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI6HxUueYhU

I think storytelling audiences come in expecting to see one person, telling a story, but theater audiences are far more open to the unusual and avant-garde.
I don’t think a modern theater audience would consider a traditional storyteller “not theater”.

Here’s Charlie Ross again, just because I love his work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d98XXlvZalE

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