OUR LATEST SHOW
THEATER AS POETRY
(for The American Poetry Theater and for Amiri Baraka) Sometimes it's hard for me to express how excited I am about this theater. And about working with you. Make this theater a place to express your wisdom! Everything you know about life by this time in your lives. Don't be afraid to say it and to say it loud and clear. Don't worry about form or theater conventions. Don't worry about anything! We're going to create new forms to express our new thoughts! New feelings! New ideas!! We are much more than a political theater. You know I've been struggling about and against this notion. I've been struggling to articulate THE FREEDOM we want to BE. Yes, political. And yes always the Blues. But also the CELEBRATION!! And our love, for one another as a company, for our audiences who are seeking something as we are seeking, hurting the same hurt we hurt. Angry the same way we are angry. But so much more than anger. We want a kind of deliverance. A kind of salvation. We want more than answers. We want questions! Let this theater be your very most honest questions. Rich Quatrone 8/28/14 Spring Lake |
"A Blues theater for the People" |
