Acting
Theatre has always been a huge creative outlet for me as well as a way for me to carry on the legacy of my parents and grandparents. I believe in showing young people (specifically asiatic males from the ghettos of the Americas) how the theatre can be both a sacred place of creation for communities and also a tool for stimulating reflection and thought provoking entertainment. I believe that performing is a skill everyone posses, and could benefit from, all they have to do is tap into it. As theatre practitioners we have a responsibility to turn stories into moments, moments into memories, and memories into reflection.
Theatre Manifesto
I believe there are two fundamental purposes for the theatre, the players, those who are putting together the performance and the community, the audience.
Players: “All the world’s a stage” a quote from a play written by one of the greats William Shakespeare. I believe that we are all acting most of the time, especially in today’s age. The practice of understanding and playing characters onstage could help one to differentiate the “real you” from the you you pretend to be for others, and in the same breath continue to discover who the “real you” actually is. This concept can feasibly be applied to really anyone studying a script and the characters and relating it to their own life, like directors and designers.
Community: The theatre should be adjacent to the church for a community. The performances should encourage the people to come together, as well as contemplate their experience in some shape or form that results a personal action. That be internally relating to the world differently or externally interacting with the world differently.
