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I think that the live experience that theatre provides is essential to people's lives.
Especially when so much that we experience now is represented to us on the screen of
a Blackberry, of an iPad, of a computer or of a television. With theatre we bring people
together and they interact with what's going on on the stages and with their fellow audience members.
At Actors Theatre of Louisville we decided to do a production of "Fire on the Mountain".
It tells the story of coal miners in Appalachia. We had audience members that would walk out
of the theater after seeing the production and they were in tears. And I would approach
them and ask them what they thought of the play and comfort them and give them a
hug. And they would tell me that they saw the stories that their grandparents had told
them brought to life on the stage and it really had transformed them.
When we see how much the live experience of theatre can impact people's lives whether
they learn about themselves or others, it makes me feel like what I do really, really matters.
I am Jennifer Bielstein and I AM THEATRE.