International Theatre
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If people are saying “that’s not theatre” because the Zoom meetings they’re in are not theatrical, then that’s just a failure of imagination. There’s so much more potential than people realize at first glance.
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The last four days have been so intense. We’ve been having deep discussions about race, gender, sexuality, and representation. There are twenty directors in the Lab, several of us with international backgrounds, and everyone approaching the topic with a different set of personal experiences and familiarity with systems of oppression in the USA. The conversations…
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In 2012, I went to Directors Lab West, an 8-day intensive for directors in Pasadena, California. I took a week off from my office job to go, and saved money on the trip by sharing a hotel room with another director. I didn’t really know what to expect, but I took a leap of faith…
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Home Is Where… is going places! Last month, Guleraana and I presented our project at the Families in Global Transition conference in the Netherlands, and we’ve just returned from New York, where we connected with other verbatim theatre makers at the NYU Forum on Ethnodrama. I was so excited to meet this community and see…
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Guleraana and I are back in London, after a whirlwind week at the Families in Global Transition conference in The Hague, Netherlands. It was an inspiring, identity-affirming, provocative, exhausting few days with hundreds of fellow cross-culture people, educators, psychologists, researchers, writers, and others who work with globally-mobile communities. Our tribe. We presented some video and…
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I absolutely detest being told, ‘that’s a good problem to have’. It started as a pet peeve many years ago when I was running a box office and our ‘good problem’ was having sold more tickets than we had seats. Great, you may think – a sold out show! Unless you’re the person who has…
AMY CLARE TASKER 