Ooooooooo… “The function of art is to awaken what is asleep.” — Victor Schlovsky
“You turn older and have this need to go back to war again. Your lifetime has doubled over since the the days you decided it was wrong, it was a waste. You need to go back, for almost the same reasons you set off on this path as a boy at seventeen. Only this time the reason is the pursuit of meaning. This time the stakes are lower. This time no one dies. The old dog walks itself into the woods to brave death on its own…I don’t know, maybe the stakes are the same after all. Maybe we all die.” — @stoshactual
Although we’re still locking down most of our C&G Year Two details, we are MAD EXCITED to announce that the season will include a world premiere co-authored by two of our favorite playwrights — Cecilia Fairchild (who wrote our FAUST piece) and Stan Mayer (Marine Corps Vet and all-around storytelling badass).
In Stan’s own words:
“Cissy and I are finally cooking something up together. We typically stand in solidarity against collaboration, as oftentimes it dilutes, but then again, sometimes it’s precisely what’s needed, beautiful and perfect. Watching our friends create together has taught us as much.
It reminds me of the kind of trust you invest into the person that’s driving you down the mine laden streets of a war zone. You’ve got to remember that the stakes are just as high on both sides of the hummer, you either both die, or you both live. You trust, implicitly, explicitly.
And so, we were absolutely humbled by our theater family @coinandghost when they asked us to write a piece for their 2019 season together. It’s always an enchanting and inspired moment in time as the pages stare back, blank, ready. Stories and life and ideas begin flooding in, the sound of ballpoint on a composition notebook, pressing on plastic keys, putting letters on paper. Bleeding out war stories in black ink.”
"Every so often the inherited myths lose their value because they become too small and confined to contain the complexities of the ever-transforming and expanding societies.
In that moment new myths are needed to encompass who we are becoming."
CHECK OUT OUR LATEST BLOG POST, featuring the words of theatre legend, Anne Bogart!
Excerpt: Anne Bogart on Mythology
coinandghost.org
(From Artistic Director, Zach Davidson)The other day, I was reading through Anne Bogart’s book, A Director Prepares: Seven Essays on Art and Theatre (Routledge, 2001). In the book, Ms. Bogart (who is …