BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl
Having thus to look to others to tell us where we are, who we are, and what is happening results in a serious (almost total) loss of personal experiencing. We lose the ability to be organically involved in a problem, and in a disconnected way, we function with only parts of our total selves. We do not know our own substance, and in the attempt to l
... See moreViola Spolin • Improvisation for the Theater
You Can’t Live Everywhere: What Comes After the Plot Collapses
Lauren Razaviglobalnatives.substack.com
This is the very possibility that small towns are supposed to offer: a theater in which to contemplate more fully the impact of your single life, your choices.
phil christman • Small-Town USA
The theater’s rich intellectual inheritance serves as a buffer to society’s recrudescent stupidity. Upholding this legacy seems a more vital role for a critic than operating as a tour guide of commercial entertainments. The survival of our democracy depends on the recovery of our critical thinking skills.
In the past, when I’ve made the case for cri... See more
In the past, when I’ve made the case for cri... See more
Charles McNulty • In defense of criticism: A theater critic asks what good does it do in an upside-down world
... See moreIn my conversations with curators, I found a tone of caring and caretaking that is missing entirely from massive digital platforms, which treat all culture like content to be funnelled indiscriminately at high volume and which encourages consumers to stay constantly on the surface…
We turn to art to seek connection, yet algorithmic feeds give us pur
“Theatre's not just a few people clowning about on a stage, being watched by this herd of oxen. I mean, sometimes it's that. But it can be ever so much more—really it can be any sort of interaction between people and people, or people and information.”