Making the audience uncomfortable

Cris talked about knowingly making the audience uncomfortable (again, this is a reference specifically to his August story).

with a storytelling show, I’m like,

“uh, let’s stay in this for a second!

I feel you pulling back,

I feel the nervous laughter

kind of like ‘ha ha’

to break the tension.

But I want to sit here for a second.”

It’s just a little bit of experimentation where

I can feel it,

like “I’m feeling a little uncomfortable,”

so I know the audience as a group, as an organism,

I can feel that we’re both feeling uncomfortable,

let’s sit in this for a minute –

let’s just be uncomfortable.

This is one of the privileges of the storyteller at Carapace, and a risk the audience agrees to. They may hear stories that make them uncomfortable.