Join playwright Christine Foster for a lively and engaging seminar/discussion addressing the art of theatre as storytelling, why the theatre will never die, why it's essential to the human condition, and why live actors are "athletes of the heart."  Christine will explore the difference in approach to telling the same story in theatre vs. film.

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Topics of discussion may include:

Why is the theatre utterly different from cinema, tv, books, and radio?  How do we engage with each?  What are the expectations?  Why is in-person, live storytelling the real "oldest profession" in the world and why will it never die?

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Experiments have shown that different parts of the brain fire up when in a theatre vs. the movies. That personal and collective consciousness activates.  Theatre is played in order, movies are shot out of sequence according to locations and availability.  How a director, and ultimately an editor are more "in control" in the medium of film as opposed to live theatre.

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What is an audiences role in the presentation of a live performance?  How a play's success or failure is partly created by an audience, that they are an active participant affecting the actors directly, and differently every night.  How you can walk out of the cinema and the movie will continue to run unchanged, where as, the collective communal experience of live theatre will ensure that no two live performances are the same.