The basis of theatre is creating an experience that communicates itself to the audience. The other things that the experience leaves behind – photos, reviews, scripts – pale beside the live experience.
Central to our vision: Community, and peak experience for that community, from playwright to director to cast to designers to technical staff to production support personnel and straight on to the audience themselves. Nothing less than this is Sanctuary:’s goal for its journey of journeys.How We Do It
A community of actors has been working with playwrights for the past 5 years in voicing new work. Our playwright/producer model determines how work is made - playwrights serve as executive/artistic producers of their own work, with all departments of the theatre aligned with that vision.
With this model we have produced many works acclaimed by both audience and press.
To expand the performative vocabulary, we have designed a fusion training program for the entire company that will be ongoing for the next phase of the company's growth. The program integrates many types of physical and performance training (instead of practicing just Commedia Dell'Arte, Six Viewpoints, Spolin, Grotowski, Decroux, or Lecoq), and is offered to playwrights, actors, and directors of all future projects. The acting company itself will become an ongoing repertory.
Theatre trainers fully support our integrated approach. The February issue of American Theatre magazine has an article about it, in fact, which quotes several of the individuals whose work we integrate: Let's Get Physical: What's Happening Now?
