As I hope you may know already, an important book just came out called Outrageous Fortune: The Life and Times of the New American Play, and the authors will be making a discussion stop in Seattle on the morning of March 1. The book has already sparked huge debate here and across the nation about the role of playwrights in the ecology of a thriving theatre. This event and this book are only the beginning of a larger discussion that will bring us a new, more vibrant, more relevant and more popular theatre in this city. Don’t believe me? Come in a few Mondays from now and tell me in person how I’m wrong. (Just don’t interrupt the nice authors from out of town to do it. They might not understand how much we Seattle show people like to scream at each other in public.)
Below is a list of the kinds of Northwesterners I think would greatly benefit from joining this discussion, and in turn-- and more importantly-- greatly benefit the discussion with their input.
Directors
Theatre Critics
Designers
Over the next couple weeks I will drill down on some of these disciplines and explain why I think they should be represented on March 1 . But looking at the list, I think I will turn it upside down and go in that order. It is the folks who do not immediately see themselves as crucial to this debate that I want to convince very much are.
Here’s the info in case you missed it before:
Theatre Puget Sound hosts
Outrageous Fortune
March 1, 2010
9AM – 1PM
Detail: 9am – 10:30 Presentation by author Todd London
Break – snacks
10:40 – 12:00pm Q & A in large group
Break – lunch type snacks
12:10 – 1pm small group breakouts and report back
Center House Theatre
rsvp: TDFRSVP@tpsonline.org
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