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365 PLAYS IN 365 DAYS
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WRITER
SUSAN LORI PARKS
DIRECTOR
JOSELYN KELVIN
PRODUCER
PRODUCTION COMPANY
THE MILL THEATRE CO.
Summary
IN NOVEMBER 2002, Suzan-Lori Parks sat down to work on her next play. She finished it that day, starting what would become the process of writing an original play every day for one year. The writing became a daily meditation, a prayer, celebrating the rich and strange process of an artistic life. It?s called 365 Days/365 Plays. The simple act of writing 365 plays in 365 days has inspired a nation-wide grassroots festival - a geographically-diverse relay race which invites each theater group to produce one week?s worth of plays in its own style, creating a testament not only to the daily artistic process, but also to the incredible diversity and richness of the American theatrical landscape. The 365 National Festival starts on November 13, 2006 and continues everyday until November 12, 2007. Who knows what could happen. With all these artists working together, it may become the largest shared world premiere in the history of the American Theater. But the 365 Festival is not building a new community; it is revealing community where it already exists - in theatres both grand and modest, in schoolrooms, storefronts, nursing homes and alleyways. So far, over 600 theater companies, arts organizations and universities are involved across the US, and the festival is growing larger every day.
Why have so many joined up? We?ve heard a lot of different stories as we travel around the country talking to rooms full of people about this project. It starts with a shared commitment to putting art at the very center of life - not as a monument but as a daily necessity.
The 365 Festival requires a collective effort to work. That?s why the festival relies on cooperative solutions to make it run, which means that every theater, no matter the size, has an equal role and responsibility. As one colleague in Los Angeles said recently, ?365 isn?t just a play, it?s a movement!? Currently we have 15 regional networks, each with its own "hub". In every hub location, 52 organizations will each produce one week's plays. For a list of networks, click here. Each producing organization gets to produce their week in their own style. We are encouraging a wide range of performance models -- onstage, as a pre-show reading in the lobby, outside the bus station at noon ? anywhere that art can surprise us.
Why have so many joined up? We?ve heard a lot of different stories as we travel around the country talking to rooms full of people about this project. It starts with a shared commitment to putting art at the very center of life - not as a monument but as a daily necessity.
The 365 Festival requires a collective effort to work. That?s why the festival relies on cooperative solutions to make it run, which means that every theater, no matter the size, has an equal role and responsibility. As one colleague in Los Angeles said recently, ?365 isn?t just a play, it?s a movement!? Currently we have 15 regional networks, each with its own "hub". In every hub location, 52 organizations will each produce one week's plays. For a list of networks, click here. Each producing organization gets to produce their week in their own style. We are encouraging a wide range of performance models -- onstage, as a pre-show reading in the lobby, outside the bus station at noon ? anywhere that art can surprise us.
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