Month: October 2017
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The Ways In Which We Break: A Conversation with Taja Cheek and Ali Rosa-Salas
The impacts of grief, however miniscule or massive, are the focus of “Submerge 2017: Break Time”, a festival curated primarily by Ali Rosa-Salas. Interested in the ways in which “we” are “permitted” to grieve in public space and, as the curatorial statement offers, a concern on the “expectation to bounce back,” Rosa-Salas has assembled an…
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“I’m Fundamentally Interested in a Gentle Theater” – a conversation with Corinne Donly and Sarah Hughes
I got the impression that Corinne and Sarah were working out their ideas in front of me, rather than regurgitating concepts already known. In other words, the play was becoming before my eyes.
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A Fucking Limping Paradox: Thomas Ostermeier’s Richard III at BAM
A white light emits from the mouth of a vintage Shure Unidyne microphone dangling from the ceiling on what looks like an electric vine with various twists and hooks adorned. […]
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Minima Dramatica: The Tyranny of Space
The question, in the end, is how much we value space in this city. For people able to afford exorbitant rents, exorbitant theater prices are logical.
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Bearing Witness To A Dragon-Slayer In The Body Of A Waif: Heather Christian’s ANIMAL WISDOM
She exists, she conjures, she illuminates through whisper and scream.
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Technology Is Just a Tool
Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty discuss “Why Why Always,” a cine-performance
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Should We All Move To Lexington? An Interview with Stephanie Troyak
Dan O’Neil interviews Tantztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch dancer Stephanie Troyak, and asks the question: “Can we make this?”
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Five Questions: Anchuli Felicia King
Anchuli Felicia King is a multidisciplinary artist of Thai-Australian descent who works primarily in live theater.
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Entering the Fifth Dimension: Yanira Castro’s STAGE
Its in-betweenness, like the liminal space of “not me…not not me,” grants us the ability to be in two places at once.
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Weekend Reading: Oct. 6
Canada abandons the arts for “creative hubs”; exploring relevance in performance at Philly FringeArts; questioning the Guggenheim; and more.
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Minima Dramatica: Theater As White Supremacy
As theatermakers, as makers of culture, we are doing as much to perpetrate white supremacy and racist ideology than anyone else. A play that features all white actors, is by virtue of its existence in this country, a racist play.
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You’re Going To Do My Play And It’s Going To Be A Hit: ‘The Mecca Tales’ Defies Stereotypes
Rohina Malik and Kareem Fahmy talk The Mecca Tales with Jerry Lieblich