The San Diego Union-Tribune: "What’s past is prologue,” as Shakespeare wrote in “The Tempest.” And when people from across the San Diego theater community first began gathering last spring for a series of summits on the topic of diversity, it was in part to find a way forward by seeing where things stood.
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I think the word inclusive is a very simple word and I think the key lesson of the being inclusive is to be fair. Overall fairness will lead to inclusiveness and vice versa. Being an inclusive community is a very crucial part about theater itself. As theater is an outlet where people share their ideas and stories, it is only logical for the relationships within the theater community need to be inclusive. Without fairness and inclusiveness, no one would have the confidence to speak their mind or share their thoughts. It’s disappointing to know that embracing diversity is still a problem within the theater community because theater is the place where all boundaries are torn down. Embracing diversity is the core of what theater stands for and storytelling has no value without diversity inclusion in my opinion. I think that sharing ideas and embracing diversity should be the first, if not innate, step of any theater company.
San Diego theater is one of the few reputed theaters in South CA that have established themselves as a theater that produces diverse content throughout the year in a way that appeals to audiences of every part of the population.
In such an almost utopian state that the theater has achieved, the only thing left for the theater to achieve in a sense where it can be deemed as an epitome of diverse theater productions is the practice of sharing ideas.
Sharing ideas is the one best thing that guarantees healthy brainstorming which eventually results in better ideas and techniques that can be used to achieve the desired goal to its full capacity, something which every art-producing firm would want to accomplish.
And essentially it would be the usage of sharing ideas as a technique that will the San Diego theater to completely embrace diversity in the work that it produces throughout the year.
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