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Finding Beauty in Asymmetry with Playwright Sarah Ruhl

Tricycle Talks

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Is There a Relationship Between Observer and Observed?

You write that you've always preferred looking at others to being looked at. So has your experience with bell's palsy offered any insight into the relationship between the observer and the observed? My goal was really, could i reach people who might be suffering with a similar thing, even if it wasn't bell's palsies? Feeling like there is that reaching out towards diminishes my sense of embarrassment over feeling vulnerable. You write about an exercise you have your s do where they practise being the observer and then the observed. Yet you yourself resist being the observed,. which is why i really ask the question. And i wonder if there is a kind of way out of that clear divide between subject and

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