Kent Thompson
Kent Thompson
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By the second act, you realize this young man is not going to live, ... Something visceral happens. I remember you could hear people start crying, and they would cry at different places. There's something about that that's what theater is all about. The audience has bought into the story, into the person, to the degree that it matters what happens next on the stage. It's at the heart of why live theater works in a way that the movies and television can rarely hope to. There's some kind of primal human connection to that kind of storytelling.
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part vision, part coaching, part recruitment and fundraising and part conversation and collaboration. My job is to articulate the vision of the theater and to make it happen, and I know the only way I can do that is to have a lot of people joining into that vision. I view it as a serve-and-lead kind of job. The hard part is figuring out when you need to do which.
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This is why you hire professionals to do this,
characters crazy eternal fools pursue themselves
The characters make fools of themselves repeatedly, and show how crazy we all act when we try to pursue eternal youth.
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We have to be careful of how we interact, and she gets blamed for all kinds of decisions I make, ... I think it's easier to blame her than me.
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The only downside I can see is that we can't prepay until 2014, rather than 2010.