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I AM THEATRE

Call and Response: Mimi Lien

by Ruth Eglsaer August 9, 2011 I AM THEATRE

“Designing sets in traditional theatre spaces, I am designing a three-dimensional space but that three dimensional space is really only viewed from one side. I would love to actually design the space that the audience moves through and doesn’t just look at from one side because the experience of moving through space is actually one [...]

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Call and Response: Eric Bogosian

by Ruth Eglsaer August 2, 2011 I AM THEATRE

“…he was profoundly disinterested when I used the term “alienation effect.” He said, “Where did you learn that term… college?” So anyway – He said, “I heard you do this solo stuff, could you do some of that for me right now?” And I said, “Look, I didn’t come up here to audition.” Fortunately, there’s [...]

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Call and Response: Lou Bellamy

by August Schulenburg July 27, 2011 I AM THEATRE

“We were looking for a place to talk about issues that we knew to be important, to show the complicated nature of African-American life, and to see our grandmothers and grandfathers on stage, with dignity, telling stories that matter, stories that were only sporadically told in other theatres around the world.” -Lou Bellamy, I AM [...]

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From What If to What Next

by August Schulenburg July 20, 2011 I AM THEATRE

Leading up to our 2011 National Conference, we hosted a number of thoughtful essays imagining the future of theatre,These posts ranged from What If Disaster Relief Included An Arts Component to What If Theatres Partnered With The Local Food Movement, with Jim Hart’s What If Artists Were Trained As Entrepreneurs attracting the most attention. Overall, the [...]

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I AM THEATRE

by August Schulenburg July 14, 2011 I AM THEATRE

“The universe is made of stories, not atoms” – Muriel Rukeyser All of us at TCG are thrilled today to launch I AM THEATRE, a video campaign that spotlights the stories of theatre practitioners in their own words. We’ll be releasing a 2 minute video each Thursday over the next 50 weeks, capturing pivotal moments in the lives [...]

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