part of a series 1_There is no such thing as a clean start. Start from the mess and move towards something. Something that might be called truth. This starts as a way to get over the paralysis of starting. The frozen moments of waiting for the right time. There isn’t one, or there is only […]
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2. Ruling and Limits
part of a series 2_Nothing is ruled out. Nothing ruled in. Not everything goes. On the importance of considering the inconsiderable and the necessity of exclusion. No strategy, subject or form can be categorically dismissed or adopted. As formulaic as much mainstream work is (ruling out many politics, forms and ways of being,) the “experimental” […]
New mandate / company description
In post Dedicated mode (thanks everyone who came) we’ve been writing some material, including re-jigging the way we talk about the company. I would love to hear thoughts on it:SMALL WOODEN SHOE sabotage , noun, French, from sabot – … 3b : deliberate subversion sabot – French, noun – a small wooden shoe. Artistic Director: […]
Ditte Maria Bjerg via Jacob Wren
– How do I become a citizen again and not remain a consumer?- Is theatre able to approach such subjects? Of course Where else can you address them? It’s worth a shot Theatre must be a free public space of dialogue and generosity welcoming genuine encounters between people – a place liberated from the chains […]
2009 World Theatre Day Message – Boal
Late in the game, but this part of Boal‘s text is especially interesting to me at the moment. One of the main functions of our art is to make people sensitive to the “spectacles” of daily life in which the actors are their own spectators, performances in which the stage and the stalls coincide. We […]
On absolutely silly shit
Sandbox posts are rough ideas – posts of writing from notebooks and partial answers to various questions. They are not done, and I suspect they might from time to time contain real errors of thinking and writing. But I want to put them here to expose them to the world and see what that does. […]
11 Conversation Starters
A few years ago I wrote a manifesto for Small Wooden Shoe in the form of 11 conversation starters.This blog seems like a place to have those conversations. The grand idea, then, is that I’ll write a post about each one – unpacking, furthering or denying and re-imagining them. Please join in. A Manifesto: 11 […]