Present the spectators as the show,
Make them actors themselves,
Make each one see himself
And love him in all the rest,
So that their oneness grows.
J. J. Rousseau – Lettre a d’ Alembert

Theater is not only an art form; it is one of the performing arts. As such, its quality is elusive. Theater exists only at the moment when a performance occurs, and to use it to study an adjacent topic, as a research tool or as an agent of change is to be onestep removed from that immediate experience. For those of us who wish to harness its power in order to create social change or to simply study humanity that fact must be held close to our hearts. [more]