The show: links to video and photos

Well it happened.  As we always know it will.  We've been working since sept 1 as a theatre ensemble, and 5 months later we put on 4 shows. The student audiences (we perform for our student body, 3 times, each audience about 350 students) enjoyed the show, but the community audience, with about 300 parents, friends and community members in attendance, really got it.  The humor as well as the deeper scenes.  You could see the student actors respond to laughs and bringing their performance to another level. 

It is difficult for me to assess this project.  It began with a great need to create theatre out of my travels, to use theatre to make sense of what I had seen in Turkey.  But it grew into much more, for this is what theatre does, it forced a whole new way of thinking throughout the process.  I have lived with this play and its ideas for nearly a half a year.  And now it's over.  I am glad we undertook it.  It was good to see 35 plus middle school students wrestle with profound issues and it was good for me to learn some new things.  The big thing I learned is that it isn't easy to do good, interesting work.  But it is worth it.
Here are links to video: 
http://vimeo.com/36220233

and photos:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53901376@N04/sets/72157629166269491/

I'll have to begin blogging about something else..