Thursday, March 19, 2009

Conceiving a Theatrical Community

How do you conceive a theatrical community?

Imagine conception...


Literally hundreds of ideas vying for attention. Finally, one idea is granted supremacy (a dream). Your dream begins to be nurtured, grow, and develop. The gestational period is a beautiful exhausting time, where dreams are fragile. So please nurture, feed, and interact with them.

Now let's take a step back to the time before our moment of conception and look at a time when our ideas were shared with another persons ideas (imagine two bodies sharing their visions). Essentially, you are imagining two communities (bodies) intertwining. Their ideas are shared and the strongest will become the focus of the communities attentions. The thing about ideas is that for them to be conceived they have to be shared.

This is how I imagine a community being conceived. Could it be artificially conceived? Yes. Could it conceived by two communities and nurtured by one? Yes. But regardless of whether in the end it is one community or two or three or more that help to nurture, feed, and interact with the dream, it must be shared with at least one other community. Otherwise it is merely a thought, a fleeting moment, a hiccup. Share your thoughts, turn them into ideas that become dreams, and eventually through a beautiful and exciting process you will conceive a community!

Thanks to Nick Keenan for asking simple questions that got my heading turning!

Who has helped you get your ideas moving along?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

That was a beautiful way to describe the way ideas are "born"