what the blog?

rehearsals start this evening for A/other Lover, which I've written and am now directing. i am anxious to begin the rehearsal process and am stoked about the cast and crew involved. a friend once told me that the writer's question is "what do I want the audience to think?" the directors question is "what do I want the audience to feel?" as the writer/director I must answer both questions...

what do I want the audience to think when they see A/other Lover?

I want them to think about truth, art and politics. I want them to think that truth is not so easy to come by. I want them to think that art is only as true as the artist. I want them to think about the politics of business and relationships; how it parallels our current state of affairs.

I want them to think about a moving story within a piece of art that unfolds before their eyes through the gift of four actors who have so inhabited four characters on a journey in search of a single truth that can only be revealed if someone is listening.

what do I want the audience to feel when they see A/other Lover?

I want them to feel a motion from ambiguity to certainty; from negative to optimistic; from dubious to surety. I want them to feel ardent towards their own search for the truth that lays within this play.

I want them to feel a trustworthiness from some characters and be suspect of others. I want them to feel a union with the story as a whole.

I want them to feel a simple pleasure that can only be impressed by enduring a dense storm. I want them to feel like they have survived a car wreck.

do you wish to think? do you wish to feel? join us.

show info at www.livewirechicago.com