Privilege and Mimesis

Politics is not an interpretation of power but the actual manifestation of power in the world. Well, think again.

As a theatre director I occupy, in a professional sense, a place somewhere between the actor and the audience. My workplace is primarily in the rehearsal room, not at the performance.

I go to work with performers and teams of technicians, designers and dramaturgs to construct, moment for moment, what an audience will see and hear when our preparations ar…