BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl
mistaking kinesis for entertainment.
Robert McKee • Story: Style, Structure, Substance, and the Principles of Screenwriting
Not talking is frightening. The rich ambiguity of silence can, especially in our ultra-anxious cultural moment, feel like a risk: If I don’t explain myself, I may be misinterpreted. But fear is ever the art-killer. Writing that pushes a play toward the ecstatic leap into theater isn’t easy or ordinary or formulaic. It has to be a commitment to both... See more
Sara Holdren • When the Play’s Not the Thing
All three share an improvisational, collaborative, creative process that is in profound ways anti-ideological, if ideology means ironclad preconceptions about who’s an ally and how to make a better future.