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Common Bonds
For an improv exercise in the 80s, a group of us went to Washington Square, got on soap boxes, and raised tirades. Mine concerned a paycheck so small, it couldn’t feed my starving, fictional children. The response was helpful, heartfelt, and powerful. Today’s world is more complex. We are suffering from a huge rift in our nation’s character: a battle of values where the stakes have never been higher. Historically, theatre has responded to our conflicts, but agitprop or guerilla theatre don’t fit this brutal landscape. Now, when even facts are unfashionable, what is left? Depression?
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