Weekly Howl on Thursday, January 24
Guns and Your Aesthetics and Ethics as a Theatremaker and Culture Producer
The Weekly Howl is a peer-produced, open-access discussion about theatre culture and contemporary performance that happens on Twitter using the hashtag #newplay.*
Join us Thursday, January 24th for the Weekly Howl on hashtag #newplay at 11am PST - 12pm PST (San Francisco) / 1pm CST - 2pm CST (Chicago) / 2pm EST - 3pm EST (New York) / 19:00 GMT - 20:00 GMT (London).
Using Tammy Ryan's recent HowlRound article "The Guns in My Plays" as a starting point for this week's discussion, we'll discuss the relationship between real-world violence and theatre's representation of it.
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*The hashtag #newplay in Twitter is a commons tag (i.e. non-proprietary, community-invested tag) for aggregating global knowledge, information, and conversation related to new works, new performance, and new strategies in the theatre.
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