Anita and I hot-seated each other for a few hours today, asking a lot of questions, going tangengential, sometimes sitting and talking does work wonders. We got clear that we liked the concept of age. Interviewing 100 people from ages 1 through 100 but that it still wasn't quite right. We continued talking about relevancy and why why why make THIS play? Who's story do we want to hear? How do we isolate the initial idea further? Then we had a minor brain wave. What if we interviewed 100 100 year olds? This is a community of people, who in our culture are marginalized, silenced and forgotten. What do THEY want to see in a play? What do their voices sound like?
NEXT DAY
Now of course we are re-thinking the brain wave. hmmmmm. Research is imperative and exciting and yet so frustrating. So many questions. Dinner with Why Not was fun last night though. We ate Mexican and danced a bit. I'm in love with them. The most fulfilling part of this process has been connecting and allying to Why Not. It's a great match of vision and politics and creative process.
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