This follows on from.… everything, and is also a beginning.
Here’s why I’m blogging this, even though I don’t think I’ve exactly found a language with which to illustrate the social value of theatre. (Because frankly, I don’t really want the responsibility of that.)
But I noticed some stuff. Look! And I’m going to blog it randomly, I think, in sections, because it’s a bumblebee of things I’ve noticed, all jumbled together and making some sort of picture… but I suspect, I hope, that the picture will be different for everyone.
So use the Law of Two Feet and hop around the various bits. If any of it mirrors something for you, that’s brilliant! Please take it away and use it! Make it bigger, make it better, make it turn into something else, grow it.
Because if my only skill is to give freedom to others, then I have done a great thing in life.
After this post, I started reading Peter Hall's Diaries, which prompted more thinking.