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Lily Hamilton - Choose Your Own Adventure - Week 4

I read three chapters of Teya Sepinuck's Theatre of Witness: Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering. The first thing that jumped out to me was what Sepinuck said about not knowing a lot of old people. I started to think about lack of representation of old people in theatre and lack of representation in general and how I never thought about how not representing this age group was a problem until it was pointed out to me. I fail to represent them in my work simply because they don't exist in my day to day life. The other thing that really struck a cord with me was when Sepinuck talked about a homeless man she worked with who did not think of himself as homeless; and how, when she gave him the means to live in a traditional dwelling, he didn't like it. This got me thinking about how we assume that everyone is like us at least in a fundamental way. We think everyone wants a house, marriage, children, to live in a city, or to not live in a city. But we are capable of not wanting to engage with a life like that and how shocking it is when someone goes against the grain.

Theatre of Witness: Finding the Medicine in Stories of Suffering, Transformation and Peace
Teya Sepinuck, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2013

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