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Originally Posted by Derwood
I've been a lighting and scenery designer for the past 13 years. You can't look at Broadway (particularly the musicals) and consider them to be the standard for American Theatre. Go to NY, Chicago, San Francisco, etc. and you can see hundreds of shows that challenge, motivate, broaden, offend, etc. your heart and mind.
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Oh I notice, of course, Broadway does not represent standard American Theatre. I just want to point out that those profit productions are taking over- soon enough if we don't do more, they will become standard. Then again I'm also talking from experience about theatre in Hong Kong- well it does not quite exist but I'm happy to see more alternative semi-professional productions being put on.
Also if anyone's interested, have a look at Odin Teatret (Odin Theatre) from Holstebro (sp?), Denmark. It was started by Eugenio Barba (sp?), a guy who worked closely with Grotowski while the legend (G. I mean) was still alive. I was there for two weeks on a kinda... workshop thing- like, getting to know how the OT works, learning some techniques and stuff. It was not anything special and their type of theatre might not be exactly my type- but they sometimes have little groups touring around- go see them if you have the chance, it's worth it.