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Audiencing: Joining the Resistance at Donmar Warehouse?

June 19, 2017 by Lynne Conner 1 Comment

Last week in London I was able to see the much discussed Donmar Warehouse production of Bruce Norris’ new adaptation of The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui. It’s not hard to see why Brecht’s satirical account of the rise of a clownish American dictator would find its moment now, amidst a global wave of unbridled populism and unapologetic me-first-ism. The orange hair is just the cherry on … [Read more...]

Lynne is a theatre and dance historian, a playwright and director, a community-based arts activist, a college professor and a cultural theorist with an emphasis on audience studies. She realizes that this list of professional activities appears unconventionally broad, but from her perspective they all share a common root: the belief that participation in the arts (as audience members and as practitioners) is the best way to make sense of the world. And making sense of the world is, well, what we humans do. [Read More]

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