-An article called Art Will Out by Jaan Whitehead (SITI Co./Theatre for a New Audience)
Here's an excerpt:
"The deepest essence of theatre is the connection of the actor to the audience. You do not need sets, lights, costumes or even a stage to create this connection or to create theatre; you just need an actor speaking to an audience. We tend to think of our theatre institutions as the means by which this connection takes place, the means by which we gather resources to produce the art and gather an audience to witness it. But we do not think very much about the fact that the theatre institutions we create are not a neutral means for doing this, that the institutions themselves affect not only what art is presented to what audience but which artists create the art and how it relates to the wider community. Because our institutions are so familiar to us—they seem so natural and inevitable—we do not ask the probing questions about how they affect and mediate the art. In fact, in seeming to be the obvious answer to the issue of how to produce theatre, the institutional model becomes a mask that obscures these deeper questions."
-A roundtable discussion titled "For Institutions: Is Art the Bottom Line?"
Participants of the roundtable:
Beth Emelson, Naomi Grabel, Irene Lewis, Michael Maso, Jonathon Moscone, Jim Nicola, James Still, Paula Tomei
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