RE: RAT Re: [bigcheap] THIS WEEKEND

[brad rothbart <scrdchao@nni.com>]

>Ratz,
  I'm realizing that it's not theatre that I don' want to do, its  a 
show- just to  keep everything running. My question was how to do 
something that speaks directly to the tragedy - using theatre in the 
service of healing....

I think that  Megan has  an idea- a really wonderful idea- one that I 
hope  will be replicated all over the country.  Not  not doing our 
shows, but dedicating  the typical dark night to serving the 
community, to help  use theatre as a response.

  As a Philadephian,
  I would be more than glad to help organize the Philadelphia effort, 
if others were to join me....

  Outside of NYC and DC,  which are special cases, are other artists 
in other cities interested in replicating this model??
-brad

>
>I've spent the last day immersed in trying to create a theatrical response
>to share with our community, in the same vein that churches are having
>spontaneous services to answer their communities' needs.  It's looking like
>a collage right now, of monologues and scenes from plays (Chuck Mee's
>"Trojan Women," Robert Auletta's translation of "The Persians," "The Grapes
>of Wrath," "Our Town," Fugard's "Playland," etc.) and readings of some
>documents of American identity and peace (the Constitution, Declaration of
>Independence maybe, Biblical text, excerpts of the Koran, Thich Nhat Hanh's
>14 precepts of engaged Buddhism, etc.)  We're going to try and do this
>Monday night.


Megan
  now in Atlanta






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