Genealogy: A Refraction of Reality

The play does not exist in the theater as a written text it has been absorbed in the process of  production. Drama is  ‘translated’ or transformed into the person of the actor — “the body of the art of the theater”, as Stark Young put it.

Harold Clurman, On Directing

Theatre isn’t real. It’s a refraction of reality, containing feelings and thoughts that are put forth, first, in a primary text, which the actor interprets—an interpretation that the director supports or edits, in an attempt to help build, in a made-up world, an atmosphere of verisimilitude.
Hilton Als

The collaboration bringing Genealogy into reality draws upon a superb group of actors, directors, designers, producers, and playwrights. Meet them below in “the process of production” of this paly in which “a shocking ancestral connection revealed during the taping of a reality podcast incites a series of surprising negotiations and unanticipated antics among its participants.”
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