Five questions with: Director Anne Bogart - Little Village
When theater creates a space for empathy, audiences can be transported into situations that are beyond their own lived experiences and their hearts can crack open. If we are telling our stories successfully, then the theater is a place where everyone can feel a transformative sense of belonging – performers, writers, musicians, and even audience
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a thesis around plays + theatre in a digital world
plays are one of the last forms of media that resist digitization -- not by accident, but by design. a play doesn’t scale. it doesn’t go viral (well, not the real thing. the idea of a play can spread. its songs, its brand, its aesthetics. but the core experience - the... See more
aishwarya 🌱🦋x.comFinally, here are 5 lessons I learned from directing in 2024 (if you have time, please send me the lessons you learned this year from your own practice):
5. If you are scared of something, have great collaborators and they will pull you towards it.**
4. You can never know what is going on with someone else and since it is usually more than you can... See more
5. If you are scared of something, have great collaborators and they will pull you towards it.**
4. You can never know what is going on with someone else and since it is usually more than you can... See more
Art is the Highest Form of Hope
I have been studying this work for the past thirteen years with them and consider it the root of everything I do. It is the way I fine-tune my attention to hold more, to expand my capacity to hold more grief, more news, more information, more joy.
In the studio, we practiced saying yes—not passively, but actively—yes to complexity, to contradiction,
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