This essay speaks to me today as I contemplate next season at OTL.. Probably my favorite two snippets that Richard Nelson writes here: You can’t put theatre away and take it out again; you can’t hang it on the wall, ignore it for days and then suddenly see it as if for the first time. You can’t put it on your shelf, pages marked with notes to return to again and again. Theatre begins and it ends. And that is a strength. and I have often wondered if we make a mistake when we think a play is like life. A representation of life. What if we think about it all a different way—think of theatre as not a representation of anything, but rather as life, a part of life itself? A relation of live human being to live human being at the same time in the same place—life. It is born, and it dies. And it lives. And for that time—it is alive. americantheatre.org/2014/08/richard-nelson-on-the-peculiar-nature-of-theatre/
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