Jul 28, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Riding Uphill on a Red Bikeby Caridad SvichIt is a baking summer day in London. “Unusually warm and humid for June,” a friend says. I am taking the tube down to Southwark for a staged reading on …
Jul 27, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Six Stages of Staging "Resistance"by Olivia GeorgeWhen Caridad first pitched the idea for the salon to me, I thought we would get ten writers. Fifteen, maybe…In the end, there were 86 writers, and loo…
Jul 25, 2017 – Stages of Resistance {my lingerie play}: the videosI want to create art that makes the impossible feel possible in the room. We have to let the impossible feel possible for the artists involved and the …
Jul 18, 2017 – Stages of Resistance YES – AND: Asking ourselves (and each other) tough questions about creation, privilege, power & responsibilityby Leila BuckI’m always skeptical of any one version of a story. As the daughter of a Lebanese mother from a mixed Muslim and Christian family and an American diplom…
Jul 13, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Wrong kind of Asian, wrong kind of workby Tanuja AmarasuriyaWhen I was kid, I dreamed of being a film star (obviously). And in those fantasies, I pictured my adult film star self as having white skin…
Jul 11, 2017 – Stages of Resistance When the Far Right Becomes the Status Quo: A Nightmare Turned Realby Charlotte MeehanLooking back, my initial decision to write this play stemmed from my anxiety about the frightening similarity between an increasingly widespread rhetori…
Jul 10, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Nothing of this is a dreamby Emily MendelsohnI am thinking of rivers or the sun fading gold against the wall. I am thinking of the lights of the city catching the underbelly of clouds or undismissa…
Jul 07, 2017 – Stages of Resistance American Privilege in Trump's Americaby Saleena NivalOn the night of Tuesday, November 8, I sat in my dorm room crying on Facetime with my Colombian best friend, Gaby. We sat in silence as our hopes for th…
Jul 06, 2017 – Stages of Resistance TRUTH, RECONCILIATION & RESISTANCE: Ceremonial Performativity and Native Aesthetics in Native Theaterby Carolyn Dunn
Jul 05, 2017 – Stages of Resistance A Political Animalby Liza Ann AcostaThe black and white image of Sophie Scholl, one of the core members of the White Rose resistance movement against Nazi Germany, was running through my F…
Jun 29, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Playing for Time in Beirutby Milia AyacheThe first time I lost faith in theater was hours before our last performance. It was my tenth show in six days, the culmination of a year’s work on Fami…
Jun 28, 2017 – Stages of Resistance On Resisting Complacencyby Daniel BrunetAs someone born in 1979, my demographic cohort is ambiguous. My analog childhood in the 1980s speaks to an identification with Generation X, with its me…
Jun 27, 2017 – Stages of Resistance And Nevertheless, She Persisted: Finding My Way Through an Existential Crisisby Joan LipkinWhere once I might have started the day corresponding about our projects, writing notes for rehearsal or working on a play, now, I made a cup of dark ro…
Jun 22, 2017 – Stages of Resistance RESISTANCEby Dipika GuhaI think it’s best I take this opportunity to tell you a story. And because I’ve been asked to share my thoughts about resistance. I think it’s best that…
Jun 21, 2017 – Stages of Resistance 45 Considerations for Making a Playby Rachel JendrzejewskiI offer these questions up to you now, in case they’re useful in your process. I propose not reading them quickly or even all at once, but sitting with …
Jun 20, 2017 – Stages of Resistance entre chien et loupby Johannes BirringerRegarding my own dance and theater practice, the work I have produced over the past years has no political relevance, but it allowed progress and new le…
Jun 19, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Sustained Ire.by Jules Odendahl JamesThis has happened before. It’s OK if you are shocked. Perhaps, when it was happening before, it wasn’t happening to you. Or near you. Or your community.
Jun 15, 2017 – Stages of Resistance What I Needed Someone to Tell Me about Playwriting (in the age of 45)by Zakiyyah AlexanderSo, the world is going mad, how can I possibly be a playwright? How can I spend time writing theater when there are so many practical things I could do…
Jun 14, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Resisting The Evil of Small Thingsby Roberto Gutiérrez VareaA few weeks ago a group of volunteers from a church in Canada were turned back at the US border.
Jun 13, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Transforming Silence(s)by Mildred Inez LewisIs the world increasingly hostile and volatile? Deep chasms have been exposed all over the world. Some have been building underneath the radar for a lon…
Jun 12, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Lorca and Artistic Freedomby Anne García-RomeroIn these times, I look to Federico García Lorca for inspiration. In the face of fascism, he wrote powerful plays that challenged cultural, societal and …
Jun 09, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Weatherby Lisa SchlesingerWe were just getting acquainted with slow food, slow living, and coming to accept that slow is actually good for our minds and our imaginations…
Jun 08, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Thought Into Action: Theater Can Save the Worldby Pia Wilsonby Pia Wilson
Jun 06, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Archives, Hindsight, and Change by Diana Damian MartinSomeone once said to me that resistance should feel like dancing on a muddy floor, somewhere in hell. At the time, all I could think of was a pastiche o…
Jun 05, 2017 – Stages of Resistance When Fake News Becomes Realityby Jake WitlenThe day Donald Trump won, I was sitting in a rehearsal room in Berlin in the midst of a three-month rehearsal for Thomas Ostermeier’s interpretation of …
