Monthly Archives: January 2011

The trick: in general, I would say that “grassroots” and “big institution” theater people STAY ENTRENCHED in one world. Those working with few resources can get burnt out and feel resentful of the theater people with money. Those working in the big institutions can get burnt out and look down on the “storefront experiments” of the smaller companies
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Perhaps, because I am a first time playwright who knows no better, this idea that the playwright is one among many is an incorrect assumption. Perhaps, in my naïveté, I have broken an otherwise flawless art form, where the onus falls on the playwright to make strong choices in a vacuum and provide her director, stage manager, sound and light directors, cast, and crew a clearer path to opening night.
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What I’m finding lately, however, is that the most rewarding stories—rewarding to me, in their composition, which is all I can control, really—come not from history, at least not from history in a book, and not from the private shadow theatre of my own psychology either, but from the lives of other people.
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