Playbill: Shana Carroll’s distinguished career in the circus arts—during which she’s performed as a Cirque du Soleil soloist, co-founded the Montreal-based circus-theatre collective The 7 Fingers, and earned a Tony Award nomination as co-choreographer and circus designer for Water for Elephants—began with a simple yet transformative encounter at age 18.
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I find the story of Shana Carroll and her commitment and determination to her creative process and output really inspiring. I think its interesting that someone initially so ordinary could find her niche within circus, and eventually trapeze, leading to a largely successful career. While it is unfortunate that Carroll can no longer perform due to her age, I believe its somewhat of a blessing in disguise for her, as it has let her explore more fields she wasn’t able to while performing. I am inspired by her, as while I do want to pursue a career in technical theatre, I am also interested in things she’s done later in life: direction and writing. I also love that she made a production inspired by her experiences in trapeze. Overall I think her work is particularly inspiring due to her change in direction throughout her life.
The Attic seems like such an interesting, beautiful, and touching show. I really like the idea of creating a memoir-esque poem that turned into a show because there are so many books, and yet so many other ways to chronicle a life. Although they are quite different, this production reminds me a little bit of Every Brilliant Thing, in the sense that this show starts in the present and looks back at formative life events in a not quite linear fashion. I think that there is so much potential for interesting theater in non-linear story telling, and would love to see more of it, specifically this show. Shana Carroll has had such an interesting life, and seeing all it play out on stage seems so cool. I also find it really interesting that this show is based on a poem that Shana wrote, and that a poem is such a cool thing to base a theatrical production on since poetry is often so musical in nature.
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