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How much power does the artist have to convince and make believe? The awesome power to make one believe. How much potential does movement theatre actually have? In this world? Now. These questions have been the driving force in writing this piece – Playwright Bridgette Loriaux
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The Alternate (Movie 2022): Wickedly Smart Sci-Fier
Be careful what you wish for is the underlying message of writer-director Alrik Bursell’s multidimensional/parallel-universe-set sci-fi thriller The Alternate. This is a wickedly smart movie, and in the current milieu of multi/metaverse fever it feels – ever so slightly – possible.
BAY AREA REPORTER
Class warfare: 'Exit Strategy'
If you're a fan of the fast-talking, morally complicated characters Aaron Sorkin has written for "The Newsroom," "The West Wing" and "The Social Network," don't miss playwright Ike Holter's "Exit Strategy," a bristling ensemble drama now in its Bay Area premiere at the Aurora Theatre Company.
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New Actors’ Equity Association policy shows how much society fails Bay Area actors
But Gonzalez-Moreno said he didn’t feel protected. He felt as if he were getting nothing instead of the non-union $250 to $300 honorarium because the union wasn’t being flexible enough during the pandemic.
“I was like, ‘Here’s the only opportunity I have right now — a staged reading via Zoom — and I can’t do it because you’re stepping in,’ ” he said.
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Acting sets words on fire in Aurora’s ‘Exit Strategy’
A script is kindling. It’s a springboard. It’s a plan, it’s ingredients, it’s the first phase of an experiment. It’s potential energy coiled to spring, bubbling to explode, perched to leap and soar.
It’s anything but a sealed, finished product. Actors are the spark, the secret sauce, the pheromones that make it dance.