The Necessity of Theater?

What can theater do for democratic deliberation? What can it do for civic education? Should philosophy and democracy involve an appreciation for the way that we perform our ideas?

(L to R: Paul Woodruff, Kelena Jones, Antonia Blumberg, Genna Lipari, Shoshi Mitchell, James Collins, Corby Kelly)

• Paul Woodruff from The Necessity of Theater

• From Theater as Civic Education to Performance-based Learning in a Philosophy Classroom

From Spectator to Performer: Theater and Critical Thinking

Antigone Reflected clip

Dramatic techniques: Stanislavski on subtext

• PS Players on their Production of Antigone Reflected and the Dialogues on Virtue Project

Logistics of the production

Playing characters of epic dimensions while trying to explore their virtues or lack of virtues in an everyday context

The difficulties of starting a dialogue with another person about virtue

How to keep a dialogue about virtue going when you encounter stumbling blocks

• Workshop Discussion