Lily EinhornNov 14, 2022
Ned Glasier

A Monday morning #TheatreQuestion.

This is a way of building conversation and connection here. Let’s keep it positive, thoughtful and fun (but not too earnest @madewithstring 🙂)

What is the thing that keeps you in theatre? And that keeps theatre in you?

Answer and repost.

Nov 14, 2022 at 9:07amWeb
Show threadLily EinhornNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier Ha! Much obliged. I guess I should start then and… Oof this is a hard one for me because I keep asking myself that question. The only answer I have in this moment is possibility: the possibility of making the work I love again, of working with non-professional adults and young people again, of creating something beautiful and ‘out loud’ which helps those who made it and those who see it really understand their value to the world. And because it can be so fucking joyful.
Show threadAnnie RigbyNov 14, 2022

@madewithstring @nedglasier Being in the audience of brilliant shows is what keeps theatre in me. I just love it. Not Too Tame’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Northern Stage had me dancing at the bus stop most recently. Nadine Shah knocked it out of the park as Titania!

PEOPLE is what keeps me in theatre. Bringing people together. People who have never made theatre before alongside people who have. Finding ways to express things that deserve to be heard. Audiences. ❤️

Show threadMorgan Lloyd MalcolmNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier @madewithstring I think my answer would be the chance to work in rooms with people. As a writer I find a lot of my work quite solitary and having now spent some time in screen work I find theatre offers way more opportunities for community and collaboration. I also just bloody love the smell of a theatre and the possibilities of what can be made. And the audiences! The change it can make. All of it basically. Absolutely addicted to it.
Show threadCaridad SvichNov 18, 2022
@mogster @nedglasier @madewithstring echooo
Show threadJake OrrNov 14, 2022

@nedglasier @madewithstring the process of making, reflecting on our changing world and the impact it has upon audiences.

Interestingly, I’ve been doing less in theatre of late and more community arts (an area I didn’t think I’d ever explore). Co-creating, co-commission and co-designing work for places means the entire process is centralised for a location. Output and process is clear. It’s thrilling but also properly life changing.

Show threadLauraMugridgeNov 14, 2022

@nedglasier @madewithstring

For me it's the stories that people tell me when I am able to create that safe and open space for them to share. I love arriving in the room in the morning and anything could happen. I feel proud to work in theatre. Also the SMELL of the place. And all those little spaces that become places for theatre however strange and tiny they are

Show threadLara ParmianiNov 18, 2022
@LMug @nedglasier @madewithstring The smell is a big thing… empty theatre during tech smell.
Show threadLily EinhornNov 18, 2022
@LaraP @LMug @nedglasier Mmmmmmm…..
Show threadJill Green CastingNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier @madewithstring
What keeps me in theatre and theatre in me - school trips in the audience and the children discussing all the things they relate to but also the stories that are new to them which sparks fascinating conversations. Or those who don’t want to share but the stories resonate deeply and may help them in their own discovery of self and the world. Their awe & joy of watching a live performance / live music. #Theatre #TheatreQuestion
Show threadChris PocockNov 15, 2022
@nedglasier @JillGreenCasting @madewithstring
Don’t underestimate how long the awe and joy can last, either. To this day (over 45 years later) I remember, with tingles down my spine, McKellan and Dench in MacBeth (at the Greenwich Theatre, I think??). Must have been 1975/76, a school trip to see the play we were doing for (I think) AO level.
Good live theatre still does it to me every. single. time.
Show threadJill Green CastingNov 16, 2022
@noncognosco @nedglasier @madewithstring
Yes definitely. Always in Awe. Theatre wasn’t part of my upbringing - it wasn’t til I was in my teens that i saw the 1st show with Derek Jacobi in 1982 I will always remember my first theatre trip as it literally blew me away!#NewcastleTheatreRoyal #RSC #TheTempest. What a #Cast #Design #music. Here’s the full cast list from #Theatricalia.com
Pic from RSC Archives incl photo credit #Theatre
Show threadLily EinhornNov 16, 2022
@JillGreenCasting @[email protected] @nedglasier Love this. It wasn’t part of my upbringing either. Some years a Christmas show. We had a mad history teacher at secondary school who took us to the Edinburgh Fringe. I was intoxicated.
Show threadAlex LeveneNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier @madewithstring
Staying in theatre is the challenge right now, but the silver lining is that sound of an audience in an interval - the hubbub of conversation, contradiction & insight. A space filled with its own reflection
Show threadScrevetonNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier Initially it was collaboration and can-do; being part of a shared enterprise and making something different happen; participation; audiences. And then I sort of moved theatre-adjacent: I got more interested in supporting ideas than a particular form. But those initial things that attracted me to theatre all still apply to what I’m doing now.
Show threadAnnemarie Lewis ThomasNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier being able to create & inform change - from social & political movements to escapism, theatre can provide 'hope'. Constant collaboration & self-discovery. It has it all going on
Show threadLauraNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier @madewithstring I am not myself when I do anything else. That’s what keeps me coming back to this terrible boyfriend. What keeps me: the ephemeral flashes of truth in performance, meaning in human geometry, and words, words, words.
Show threadJeremy HarrisonNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier Just when I think I am no longer ‘in’ theatre, it seems to expand to contain what I am doing. Maybe I am expanding the definition for myself… so I never actually have to leave. That’s the ‘theatre in me’ bit I guess.
Show threadConrad A. Panganiban 🇵🇭🇺🇸✍🏽🎭Nov 14, 2022
@nedglasier @madewithstring Creating content for and being with an audience in order to build community, understanding, empathy, hope, joy, and laughter are a few things that keep me in theatre. Thank you for asking!
Show threadMark JohnsonNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier @madewithstring always comes back to that feeling that comes from people starting with nothing, playing and making a mess until stuff starts to become a thing. That shared process is addictive.
Show threadCaitlin Magnall-KearnsNov 14, 2022
@nedglasier being able to tell stories that resonate. To move and provoke thought. To work with amazing actors and inspiring directors. And because I’m useless at everything else 😅
Show threadLaurie 🏳️‍⚧️ (he/him)Nov 19, 2022
@nedglasier @madewithstring what keeps me in theatre? The growing number of co-artists willing to break tradition and put my wellbeing above the popularity of a show. What keeps theatre in me? The joy of collaborating with a live audience, who can then be so generous with me in return.
Show threadRosamund GravelleNov 19, 2022
@nedglasier @madewithstring it allows a space for play, connection, thought, emotion / direct emotion, movement…it’s a transportive place.