Theatre is a collective reaching for mystery and truth.

Theatre is the grandchild of ecstatic and mysterious rites. Theatre is ritual. 

Theatre artists prepare for this ritual by practicing listening to the mysterious, by embodying the mystery, and by ritualizing that embodiment. 

Theatre artists prepare for this ritual by creating space using ancient technologies that serve human bodies: light and dark, sound and silence, intimacy and grandeur, shaping time like a potter shapes clay. 

Theatre is a place where we practice building and inhabiting other worlds. Theatre is a place where we practice imagining and living other lives.

Theatre that looks too much like real life is a waste of theatre. Theatre that relies too much on words is likewise a waste of theatre. 

Theatre that ignores, talks down to, or leaves no room for its audience (by being too internally-focused or by over-explaining) is not theater, because it does not allow its audience to complete the circle — electricity arcing between charged nodes.

Audiences prepare for this ritual by yearning, then arriving, then expecting, then listening, then changing.

Theatre is the radical fact of people together, 
with pulses, breath, nerves, and senses,
together on purpose,
strangers together on purpose,
waiting for something to happen

that may reveal the truth

that may change your life

that may change the world.

Theatre is the opposite of:

• screens
• marketing
• anything trending
• borders
• convenience 
• personal branding
• nihilism
• rationalism
• objectification
• argumentation
• and anything else that can make you rich or powerful 

It is theatre’s job to be in conversation with these things, and with anything else that either is or isn’t in the world.

Theatre is a collective reaching for mystery and truth.

*subject to change