Crankie
The audience waits in dim light. They hear the sound of paper fluttering, sliding, and crinkling, before they see […]
The audience waits in dim light. They hear the sound of paper fluttering, sliding, and crinkling, before they see […]
I do not imagine a theater, because I live theater, breathe it in and out; I dream it. But, if I had to imagine a theater, then I'd like to imagine that the languages that have been forgotten, which are still spoken in many parts of the world, would be part of this new playwriting.
The public wanders through a collection of rooms, each with a different performance, exhibit, reading, meeting, game, discussion. Their experience is not fixed. They wander without moorings, the way a curious reader meanders through the pages of a magazine, not knowing what they’re searching for.
sharing rhythm creates a political question about who determines rhythm and when trio in unison, with the possibility of becoming either backup dancers or soloists open-ended and absurdist and nonsensical shame as part of gaze
It is raw, it is real, it is happening with you in the room and can only be experienced in the “here and now.” It is open to a multiplicity of heres and nows depending on the realities, perceptions, localities... of those present.
The ideas become architecture. If I were to do a design, it would look like this:
This city is being made and headed for - from this town that has been arguing with me, it will get something.
The people who wrote me were not aware; they didn't know that everything would become a show. I didn't tell them they would be the protagonists
It’s an experiment in placing the private in public, says the director—a device HE will learn to use well in the many years to come.
Imagine their devotion. Imagine what they heard.