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This week we had to share a story or our experience when someone speaking, gesturing, or practicing something that they meant to be a  hidden  transcript, but ended up delivering it as a  public  transcript.            I went back and tried to see if anything comes up from my own experience, but couldn’t think of anything. However, what came across my mind are lots of hilarious situations that we view during live news on TV channels. These weathercasters or news reporters who are put in circumstances of live streaming are obligated to deliver information no matter what. So many stories when someone gets into the frame with them and starts dragging all of the attention, when words are pronounced incorrectly, unexpected loss of objects in the frame or replaced by something not relevant, dropping of the camera, weather conditions that make it difficult to deliver the news, digital errors, and much more. Here is a video of Best TV News Bl...
Coming from a 2nd world country, I have not seen many Avant-garde performances. However, I recently viewed a play at the Louisiana State University, which was a part of their experimental Lab show series.  4.48 Psychosis  is a play by British playwright Sarah Kane, directed by Angelle Mishon and starred such actors as Gabby Broussard, Elizabeth Harding, Kiana Naquin and Jaunee Young. This particular play is a very complicated piece in many aspects: there is no specific setting where the event takes place, it can be staged with one person or with two-three more, the conversation turns from a monologue into a dialogue, confessions become at some point poetic version of schizophrenia.             The first time when I heard of this play was during one of the classes of  Script Analysis,  where we were discussing another play by Sarah Kane,  Cleansed . The discussion, as the play itself, was in regard of...