Scott Walters's List: Creative Insubordination

• story circles
• After showing a work in progress, we like to hear more stories from the audience about the story the play is trying to tell.
• audience members to tell their personal stories about the themes in the performance in which they have just participated as audience members
• Since the lives and culture of the people who are their audience are principal subject matter for Roadside’s work, this is an artistically appropriate method of development
• After the play, rather than having a talk-back with the audience, in which someone says, “Well, why did the actor or director make this choice?” or “I like this better than that” or “I didn’t understand this”—rather than that, we go into story circles with the audience to hear their personal stories called up by the performance. As a bonus, these new stories help the actors develop their roles.  
• We don’t need to invent completely new approaches as we awaken to the wisdom of engagement. We simply need to know where to look to find the wheels that have already been invented.

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