Apr 25, 2017 – Stages of Resistance The Poetics of Provocation: Elfriede Jelinekby Brian BellAs we stumble through this enormously unsettling period in American history, and take stock of our own ability (or perceived inability) to enact change ...
Apr 24, 2017 – Stages of Resistance A Meditation on the National Forest Service by Justin MaxwellAs a playwright, I’m an artist whose medium is language. I should be at my desk every day and in the theatre every night. Instead, I find myself compuls...
Apr 22, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Craftyby Karin McKieI hate social media for its antisocial nature, but now checked it incessantly, looking for an endorphin bump of positive news – is this a joke?
Apr 22, 2017 – Stages of Resistance How to Play a Womanby Jocelyn KuritskyI still have the rage, though it simmers behind a pensive facade. And I think about Clinton, a lot. I think about women, a lot.
Apr 21, 2017 – Stages of Resistance The Unofficial Versionby Michael Gene SullivanWe cannot allow ourselves, in our quest for funding, to become entertainment for the sake of entertainment. There to amuse, but never challenge.
Apr 20, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Stella Made Crumb Apple Piesby John MoletressAs a kid, I ran to see Stella of the kitchen. Her small office, tucked away behind the fryers, oversized ovens and oeuvre of burnt bacon fat, hosted a s...
Apr 19, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Our Carnal Heartsby Rachel Mars & Roberta MockWhen you enter a theatre space as an all-female company, you are sometimes approached by a technician or programmer or front of house person, and they o...
Apr 18, 2017 – Stages of Resistance But Still, Like Air, I’ll RiseVelina Hasu HoustonDon’t write about people of color. Don’t blend Eastern and Western theater aesthetics. These were things that were said to me when I began making art fo...
Apr 17, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Resistência: 3 Fadosby Elaine AvilaDonald Trump says he does not shed a tear. When asked by a reporter at People Now, he said, “I haven’t cried since I was a baby.” He has continued to e...
Apr 14, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Being Patient With What We Don't Understandby Andy SmithThe process of discussing this translation through interpretation...is necessarily measured and slow. It’s mostly exciting and interesting, sometimes ex...
Apr 12, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Great Again* Conversation between two distressed/ hopeful playwrightsby Chiori Miyagawa & Crystal SkillmanOne thing I am grateful about is that you and I are talking, even if most of what we talk about is terrible news. We started talking before the 2016 ele...
Apr 11, 2017 – Stages of Resistance The Machine of Disobedienceby Mando AlvaradoWe believe we’re right. They believe they’re right. And the truth is somewhere in between and it’s our job as artists to find it.
Apr 07, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Our Lives Have Changed, Our Jobs Have Notby Callie KimballYou’re in Arizona for the first time in your life. Everything looks like Mars. You’ve been in the passenger seat of a rental car for a few hours, includ...
Apr 06, 2017 – Stages of Resistance The Dance of Deathby Chris HedgesThe ruling corporate elites no longer seek to build. They seek to destroy. They are agents of death. They crave the unimpeded power to cannibalize the c...
Apr 05, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Predicting the Pastby Charlotte CanningIt is the past people are interested in reinventing. It is the past that is invoked to justify present actions.
Mar 29, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Tips for the Resistance Fatiguedby Deborah BrevoortIf you are like me, you’ve probably spent hours over the last few months writing letters and making phone calls to your Senators and Congressman to voic...
Mar 28, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Teach Your Children Well: Resistance Theatre is for Kids, Tooby Lojo SimonHate has trickled down to these innocent lives, and kids who are tan or brown or speak a language other than English are being threatened and bullied an...
Mar 24, 2017 – Stages of Resistance You Ask Too Many QuestionsBy Madeline SayetAs a director, I spend a lot of time asking questions. And yet somehow, I never feel I ask enough. So, I made a change recently. I switched my main mode...
Mar 23, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Political Art: A User's Manualby Andy FieldIt starts with being angry/ This is always a good place to start/ And I want to offer you a minute of anger to begin with
Mar 22, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Until the dinosaurs die outby Jenny LarsonThese words were medicine to me. A balm for my soul. They played in my head for days after I read them and soon became my battle cry.
Mar 21, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Making Theatre Nowby Ashley EdwardsDon't assume that it's all going to work out. Don't assume. Don't assume that everyone is on the same page - in the audience, in the green room, on the ...
Mar 20, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Resistance is Not Futileby Yvette NolanI come from a long line of people who have resisted assimilation for hundreds of years. Survivance – the port-manteau of survival and resistance (as sug...
Mar 18, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Mediacracyby Peter A. CampbellAs a theater writer, director, and teacher, much of my self-critique came as a questioning of the role of media and the arts. So I started to look for a...
Mar 17, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Campus Organizing, or How I Use Theatre to Resistby Trevor BoffoneWhat could I do to engage my students in live theatre as an act of resistance? In what follows, I consider the ways in which my university position gran...
Mar 15, 2017 – Stages of Resistance Bond Street Theatre's VOLPONE in Myanmarby Joanna ShermanWe have been collaborating with a daring theatre group in Myanmar, Thukhuma Khayeethe, on a Burmese version of Ben Jonson’s 1605 play about greed and co...
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