Theater Reviews + Features | Pittsburgh City Paper: A decade ago, Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company had a wild idea: Why not solicit short scripts from black and white dramatists, then have the plays directed by members of the "other" race? Pittsburgh gushes theatrical talent, African American and Caucasian — and these people rarely meet across color lines.
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His philosophy of opposing a bad idea is closely aligned with the notion of asking for something and defending your department in the collaboration process.He mentions the all too frequent practice of clamming up in a board meeting. This happens all the time in our industry. As participants in production meetings we can learn a lot from this failed ad campaign. If you have opinions on the final product - in our case a production or a design, in theirs the ad - you should speak up. Everyone in the room during a production meeting is vested in the product, everyone has the right to speak and should speak up. If you don't , you are forfeiting both your opinion at the moment and your potency to act in the future. "I told you so" does no on any good and if anything makes you look like the weakest link for not speaking up when you could have. The references to gender roles and masculinity that led to the ad's demise this is a good example of what can be produced when your opinion is not expressed. What's worse being heard or not speaking at all?
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