I am reading a journal called LIVE that asked a few theatre makers what their ideal theatre would be and why. Couldn't help but draw parallels with the church. I thought I would post a few responses here and let you draw your conclusions
"The work that would happen out in the streets and in the schools and the clubs and the pubs and the homes etc. would be just as important as the work that went on in the space itself." Michael Bogdanov
"It's what I call vertical theatre rather then horizontal - Vertical because it comes from the ground up, from the roots up, and cares and attends to its own community but looks beyond that local community to an international one. As opposed to a horizontal theatre which is basically planing along above the the ground aimed at a middle-class national and international circuit." Mchael Bogdanov
"For us the start of the journey was to look at who wasn't going to the theatre and notice who they were - on the whole the young and the poor - and to begin to think about how the young and the poor might join with us to go somewhere exciting." Ruth Mackenzie
"There are certain companies that we've presented in our theatre where the ritualistic process of the whole thing has been the closest equivalent I feel, to what going to church must be like if you're a believer. It is gathering. It's a shared experience." Lois Keidan
"That's my journey metaphor. You never actually hit a destination in the theatre, you're always going somewhere." Ruth Mackenzie
"We've got to breed a nation of people for whom somebody who's an artist contributes politically, socially, aesthetically and culturally to the life of a country rather then just living on the fringes of society" Michael Bogdanov
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