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How theater collectives develop unspoken creative hierarchies

Our theater company has been devising work together for five years and we've developed this unspoken hierarchy where certain people's ideas get explored and others get politely acknowledged and dropped. We all participate in maintaining it but no one wants to name what's actually happening to our collaborative process.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Democratic creative ideals are being quietly abandoned in favor of an unofficial power structure that no one acknowledges.

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