Editors' Letter

EDITORS’ LETTER

What does it mean to invest in culture when the world trends seem to be singularly focused on maximizing profits at the expense of all life?

It all certainly seemed like an impossible dream when a year ago we embarked on this adventure: a new independent magazine for theatre artists to share their craft and their struggles; an outlet in which opening the doors to traditionally underrepresented voices isn’t an afterthought but a cornerstone; a community of artists whose creative process mirrors that of the collaborative discipline they are giving voice to; a space where equity, diversity and inclusion aren’t buzzwords to maintain an image in front of stakeholders, or boxes to be checked so that funding can be approved, but are the seeds to generate a better, richer, and perhaps more layered and interesting reality.

Our voices, our sounds and our scripts are our weapons against shortlived interactions and short attention spans. Our bodies, our colors, our textures, our lighting, our sets are our antidote to the crudities and cruelties, the amoralities and mediocrities of our times. Our stage becomes the even field of play from which our scripts morph an otherwise harsh reality into a refuge where—as the pieces in this volume have it—dancing, hot springs, handwritten notes, éclairs, and friends who are always there for us expand the limits of our imagined possibilities.

This magazine is the living place where all of these elements converge to make the world a better place.

Julieta Vitullo, Head Editor & Kathryn Lynn Morgen, Publisher-in-Chief