AMERICAN THEATRE: Inside Lincoln Center, one of America’s most prized performance spaces, Mark Denning (Oneida Nation), the cultural consultant and dramaturg for Skeleton Canoe, asked the audience in a pre-show speech to measure time not in years, but in inches. He added that if Indigenous peoples’ time on this land now called America were counted in inches, it would stretch the length of three football fields.
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This is the kind of theater I want to see. First off, I love theater that is centering accessibility rather than disregarding it or even just considering it. Secondly, the use of puppetry feels super useful in portraying animals in a way that is respectful and humanizing. I also love to see the centering of indigenous voices and experiences. I also just find work like this so refreshing, it feels playful and powerful in a time where that is missing from the industry. The message of recarving when things are broken rather than just mourning feels really important right now when it feels like lots of things are broken and at least I am feeling a lot of despair. I think it is particularly useful to be hopeful and working to create solutions rather than wallowing and wasting time.
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