Original Elevator Pitch

"I realized, the thing that I’m attracted to in a show/script/etc is life. That sorta, raw, pulse, of being alive. The best way I've heard it is in the music for Once On This Island. In Shakespeare, it’s the vitality IN the lines, when a performer truly lives the text. Whatever means or method or madness, it has to be alive. This made me think a lot about the ending of Angels. One of the last things Prior says is "I bless you: more life" and that stuck with me, that moment where we ran out of the theatre (in reality, to the balcony) to the life outside. When the song Freedom came on. It’s that joy. It’s the flame that Prometheus stole. It’s the formation of synapses in the brain- education. It’s West Side Story. I could list a long time. It's what attracts me to Michelle Hensley’s work, she made greek tragedy relatable to people in prisons who had never seen theatre in thier life. It’s that connection of vitality... something..

it’s mercurial . it’s a quickening. quicksilver.

it’s inspiration. spire - breathe , in breathe, the vitality of that.

enthusiastic. en-theo. engoded.

images:

prometheus. fire. zoi.

life, and the struggle for it is how we relate. how we participate"

- Crenshaw Yeo, 22 Jan 2019