Issue 32, Spring 2007

“Making Theatre, Making a Difference: The Winter/Summer Institute in Theatre for Development.”

Co-author with Lucy Winner

In the June of 2006, in the bright, high mountains of Lesotho, Southern Africa, people from four different lands came together to make theatre to try to make a difference. We were 22 students and eight faculty from four countries and three continents. Because our homes were so far apart and the seasons were reversed, we called ourselves the Winter/Summer Institute in Theatre for Development (WSI). Our goal was to challenge ourselves to create collaborative, issue-based, aesthetically provocative theatre.  MORE