How might Christian virtues and practices inform theatre? This weeklong workshop for thirty or more theatre professors will address this question. Each participant will develop an individual project that aims to practice, via theatre, one of the cardinal virtuous practices of Christian faith and life, such as hospitality, discernment, witness, forgiveness, and reconciliation. During the course of the workshop we will ask ourselves whether we can:
Welcome diverse audiences with hospitality that leads to illuminating program notes and comfortable accommodations for those who need them?
Ensure that our play choices and assignments of roles arise from conscientious discernment?
Give witness, both critical and appreciative, to the range of theatrical expressions and outlooks we have experienced?
Seek and grant forgiveness when theatrical words and actions have caused hurt?
Commit our theatres to work for reconciliation in a torn-up world?
Applications are welcome from professors of theatre in church-related colleges and universities and from Christian theatre professionals.
