HowlRound: There is no single paramount challenge to leading a one-person collegiate theatre department. Certainly resources—like personnel and finances—come immediately to mind. However, questions of “currency and relevancy” are even more immediate. How can we demonstrate the power of a collaborative art form in a liberal arts setting and into the surrounding community? And how can we do this through the production of complex contemporary work that likely would not be produced by local theatres?
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This is such a powerful story about the power of community involvement in theater. Aquinas College’s student population would have resulted in a bland white production of a show that should reflect our modern society’s diversity. By reaching out to the community, it not only insured that the production would be more racially diverse and involve the LGBTQ community, but also provided the audience with a more enlightening performance. Productions like this should be commended for tweaking their standard guidelines to create a more inclusive performance that benefits the performers and the audience in a community. Hopefully other performance venues in similar situations use this same technique to provide a performance more reflective of America’s current beautiful diversity.
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