Story Telling

According to Arden Fingerhut, "To create a story, then, is to create meaning" (Theatre: Choice in Action, 3). I don't necessarily disagree with this statement. I do, however, wonder...

What if I want to tell a story to create confusion...to create the opposite of meaning?

What if I want to tell a story that has no "discrete conclusion"?

What if I want to tell stories that "appear particularly unfathomable"?

Do stories need to have beginnings, middles, and ends? What happens if a story just starts and ends as rapidly as it began with no description of the events before nor any predilection of what may happen in the future?

As a theatrical artist, I often wonder, what is it that drives people to create and re-create? I want to tell stories for people to become more human as a result of staging the story being told and watching stories being staged. I want to create theatre that steps outside of convention, that seeks out things that have not been done under the sun, and allowing the human experience a chance to grapple with stories that create the unfathomable.

From Bertolt Brecht's Baal...

"THE BEGGAR: Nothing is understood. But some things are felt. If one understands a story it's just that its been told badly."