Mutation and Performance Genealogy in <i>The Confessions of Punch and Judy</i>
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Abstract
On the morning before The Confessions of Punch and Judy (Bobgan, Kowalchuk and Wells) opened at the Theatre Centre in Toronto’s trendy Queen Street West district, director Raymond Bobgan met me for breakfast. We set out at 9:30 on a Saturday morning, too early for the hipper cafes to have begun serving brunch but reached the Swan diner at 10 a.m., just in time to see the doors unlocked and the sign in the window flipped to “Open.” Sliding into the tall wooden booths, we spoke about our shared desire to relocate to Ontario. We debated the merits of my wish to apply for skilled-worker status versus Raymond’s current freedom, under the provisions of NAFTA, to teach and direct in both the United States and Canada. My motivations for wanting to immigrate are mostly ideological, while Raymond’s are primarily artistic. Having taught intensive modules at Toronto’s Humber School of Creative and Performing Arts for the past three years, he’s encountered a number of gifted student artists interested in his approaches to vocal and physical training and the creation of devised performance. It’s a surfeit of riches he lacks in his current home of Cleveland, Ohio, where Wishhounds Theatre, the company he founded with partner Holly Holsinger, currently includes only one member in addition to themselves, apprentice Chris Seibert. Other gifted collaborators have come and gone over the decade since Bobgan established his first ensemble company in Cleveland, most eventually moving on because of the difficulty of earning a living wage for their artistic labour and the scant availability of non-service-sector jobs in the troubled rust belt city.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.014 | 0.012 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".