Big Ideas
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It’s official! The secret’s out! On July 1, 2013, I will land at Heathrow Airport at the end of a one-way journey. Why? You may well ask. For the Adventure Because I can. Because I’m 28 and have a British passport. Because I’m old enough to do whatever I want and too young to know better. Because…
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I have learned so much this week from curating an interview series on the Works by Women San Francisco site, TACTICS: Theatre Artists’ Collected Thoughts Insights Challenges and Strategies for gender parity advocacy. I expected to learn a lot about what individual advocates have been doing for decades, what the idea of gender equity has…
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What a week! Dare I say I spent the last seven days pioneering a new way of making theatre? I love living in the future! Directors Lisa Szolovits, Wolfgang Wachalovsky and I met at Directors Lab West in May 2012. Having known each other a grand total of four days, we began to make plans…
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It’s been a while since I last gushed about the sublime insanity of collaborating with Megan Cohen on The Helen Project. We’ve been pretty busy gearing up for our developmental workshop at DIVAfest this May. In the last couple of months, we’ve revised our notion of who/when our five Helens are, tried out a few…
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Megan and I are getting pretty excited about our upcoming workshop of The Helen Project at DIVAfest this May! One of the many things on our to-do list – along with assembling our creative team, budgeting, brainstorming on the form and functionality of the “online interactive CyberJourney” and you know, continuing to write, edit, and…
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2012 has been a year of fragmentation, as I rearranged my life with a new job and new theatrical communities. I’ve realized, too, that my artistic work has been in fragments lately: Since February, Megan Cohen and I have been putting together our “Build Your Own Helen Play Kit,” made of fragments of identity, narrative,…
AMY CLARE TASKER 