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When personal trauma becomes artistic material

I wrote a monologue about my father's death and performed it twice but now every time someone asks me to do it again I feel like I am performing grief instead of processing it

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The transformation of authentic experience into repeatable performance threatens the boundary between genuine emotion and theatrical craft.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Theater and dramatic arts?”

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