Being Clever
Theatre, by definition, is about coming together as a community to share a story that explores a question - this could be anything from the global crisis, to the fact we supress a majority gender, to the fact we all feel a bit sad to what ever.... The idea being that we go for a night out, have a good time, digest some ideas, swallow them and intergrate them into our viewpoints. If it fails to do that it's failing it's job. Period. I'm not saying we should be as brazen as the
Commisioning.
Theatre should never be about a writer - it should be about telling this story, in this place, for this audience. Yet we say "Xs new play" like we celebrate Xs but we don't see beyond the fact the plays are hollow and, generally, irrelelvant for the community they play to. When you do a commission for the Bush you write a play for a diverse audience in Shepards Bush hopefully with the aim of doing something for that audience that challanges the way they live/ think/ behave/
What Cultural investment can do to communities (as seen in Hull).
So here we are.. Post Edinburgh. Firstly I'd like to say Thank You to everyone who went to see ALL WE EVER WANTED WAS EVERYTHING. It was a dream project with the dream people and it went better than I could have ever hoped for - not only in Edinburgh but in Hull where thousands of non-traditional theatre audiences engaged with a story about our generation, had a good night out, and reflected on the way we live our lives in our specific society. The success in Edinburgh was th