How We Make a Play Together

When we, as artists, gather together with you, as audience, there are a few things we want you to know so that we can create this play together.

• Your unique responses make the story come to life each performance.
• You are allowed to laugh out loud! To have audible moments of reaction and response.
• This is live theatre and the actors need you to engage with them, but recognize the difference between engaging and disrupting–lean into the story.
• The people around you (and onstage) each show up with their own history and experience. They might react differently, and that’s okay!
• Please join with others and allow a bit of breathing room. Exhale together. Laugh together. Talk back a bit to the play, when you really need to, with your mmmhmmms and your ahhhs and your amens. These stories can take it.

 This is community. Let’s go.

(Created from the collective work of many theaters & Dominique Morriseau’s “Playwright’s Rules of Engagement”)