I Staged a Bomb Shelter in June. In July, Ukraine Taught Me What I Had Actually Made.
The audience was all women. The men are at war.
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Essays on directing from the founder of Arlekin Players (4 Lucille Lortels, WSJ Best Theater 2024). Every essay free.
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They Burned Their Neighbors. Now a New Plaque Says the Jews Did It.
On the 85th anniversary of the Jedwabne pogrom, a far-right plaque rewrites who did the killing. What my production of Our Class was built to refuse.
I Turned On Paid Subscriptions. Every Essay Stays Free.
On patronage, thirteen readers, and keeping the door open
The Script Is Not Sacred. Your Audience Is.
Every director who treats the script as sacred is staging a corpse.
Every Director Who Explains Why the Perpetrators Did It Makes Evil Understandable and Theater Impossible
There is a moment before every Holocaust play begins, before the lights even go down.
Why Theater Is Hard: A Live Conversation with Playwright Sara Farrington
A recording from Igor Golyak's live video
Your Catharsis Is Not My Theater
I was twenty years old and I thought I understood what this work was for.
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Every Actor Who Thinks Their Job Is to Tell a Story Is Slowly Killing Their Work
I know I will be excommunicated from the church of theater for saying this.
I Went to Poland to Prepare Our Class. What Broke Me Was a Parking Lot.
...and some scattered thoughts