One of the old adages about our activity stands as such: “You can’t go pro in forensics.”
More and more these days, there are former forensicators who are challenging that simple convention. While traditional acting always remains an option, activities like slam poetry and other forms of performance are giving those who move into the real world a creative outlet to explore and share.
We begin our spotlight with a pair of Illinois State University alumni and former college forensics champions.
From their website:
Brought to you from the minds of poets and producers Robbie Q Telfer and Shanny Jean Maney, The Encyclopedia Show is a live variety extravaganza that commissions local and touring artists and experts from many disciplines to use their individual talents to present a different verbal encyclopedia entry each month. The Encyclopedia Show endeavors to build an age-integrated community cultivating accidental knowledge and irreverent lovingkindness. Though the show is accredited by the Institute of Human Knowledge and Hygiene, it is our ongoing mission to chafe against logic and proof, find meaning in obfuscation, and wrest truth from fact once and for all.
To learn more about the Encyclopedia Show, visit their website.
The fun doesn’t stop in the upper Midwest. The Encyclopedia Show Austin premiered recently thanks to the work of University of Texas-Austin alumni and other speech-folk.
Better yet, spend a day wisely and check out full installments of the series courtesy of Chicago Public Radio.
While you’re at it, click past the jump to check out a video from the first show: Bears. You can also peep the ATX production of The Moon.
