Question Everything
Inventor Buckminster Fuller once said:
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”
It is the statement of a visionary, not a reformer, and it serves as the motto for this newsletter.
My goal is to inspire you to “think again” about the way things are done today in the American theater, and consider the way things might be if only we could actively use our imaginations.
As a theater historian, I have encountered many past ideas that have been forgotten but that ought to be revived.
As a pragmatic idealist, I have seen many approaches that are defaults today that desperately need to be replaced.
As a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary reader, I have discovered many ideas in other fields that, with some imagination, could be used as a crowbar to free our theater from it’s restraints.
In the 1956 play Look Back in Anger, playwright John Osborne has his angry young protagonist, Jimmy Porter, cry “Oh heavens how I long for a little ordinary human enthusiasm. Just enthusiasm – that’s all. I want to hear a warm, thrilling voice cry out Hallelujah! I’m alive! I’ve an idea.”
I write this newsletter for the Jimmy Porters of today’s theater.
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