Michael Milligan explores the bare minimum needed to make solo theatre, as well as the grassroots nature of it, and what can happen when you collaborate with people who are deeply passionate, though perhaps not artists.
Brett Bailey’s Exhibit B poses actors in tableau vivants that nod to 19th century human zoos, and Southwest African concentration camps. Patty Gone charts the controversy around the show and his own experience of it.
Scena Theatre is small but ambitious, and in spite of its relatively low profile, it has thrived in Washington for twenty-seven years. Founding artistic director Robert McNamara is tenaciously committed to bringing new work from around the world to D.C. audiences.
Scott Wesley Slavin kicks off our week on solo theatre, exploring vulnerability, therapy, one-to-one relationships, and defiance. He asks, “What is solo theatre? What could it be?”
"Audience participation" is a vague term, like much of theatrical terminology; it has come to mean different things to different people... What happens when the audience participates by becoming performers—without volunteering to do so?
