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In August of 2005, I traveled to New York City to work on a production called Mieu No Eki.
The play is about a group of people fleeing from a horrific tragedy, in search of water
and in search of the humanity that they might find as they're looking for this source of
life. This production happens in slow tempo and there are no words, so that means that
it was a really kind of blank canvas. So we took the play to New York City with the intention
of trying to commemorate September 11th. We got to New York City and we were in rehearsals,
we were in tech when Hurricane Katrina hit. And all of a sudden we realized that in some
ways it was a really magical moment and a great opportunity for us to be able to connect
what was happening in the real world with what we were doing on stage.
And we had these wonderful moments in post-show discussions with audience members as they
were able to kind of project themselves and project what they were seeing in the real
world, onto the stage.
It made me realize how important theatre was to how we process what's going on right now
and it got me really interested in what I call "non-fiction theatre". Theatre that is
about what's happening right now in our world.
I am Devon Smith and I AM THEATRE.