Theater as a Religion
Davi Napolean, a reader, sent this article to us a while ago, and I finally got around to reading it. As a theater person myself, I found it interesting. Enjoy!
And by the way, we really love it when people send us links, although I believe we are all so often busy cleaning up vomit and trying to manage naps that it might take us a while to post them.
So, it’s about 20 years ago, and one of my kids, then around 10, is in Meredith Wilson’s band at the Ann Arbor Civic Theater, learning his instrument through the Think Method. During a rehearsal break, the kids are talking about where they go to church or synagogue. Everyone but my son has something to share. He comes home, upset: “Mama, how come we don’t believe in anything?”
“We do believe in something,” I assure him. “We just don’t believe there’s a God.”
“What do we believe in?” I’ve left him outnumbered and defenseless, and I have to come up with something fast. “We believe in the theater,” I tell him. I might have said we believe in the First Amendment or in the scientific method, which would have been true, too.
