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Adhesive Theater Project binds the arts through the bonds of collaboration.
We are dedicated to working with artists in a broad range of fields – from
fashion designers to scientists, illustrators to engineers – to create
experimental, multidisciplinary work. By challenging these artists to work
in the theater we create new perspectives for live performance. By integrating
live music, visual arts, and technological innovations with metaphor and narrative
storytelling we create epic experiences that excite the audience's imagination.
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Since the creation of film, the theater has been ever competing with its younger
sibling in spectacle and in movement toward an increasingly reality-based drama.
As often is the case with competitors, these two separate art forms have been
traveling down the same path, reflecting one another all the while in both acting
and production style. As a result, we now expect that for every good play a film
will surely follow and that some films will make the "leap" to Broadway
(without losing an ounce of reality).
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Realism in Western Theater is a relatively new phenomenon that began at the turn
of the last century and has had its hold ever since. The movement grew out of a
reaction to its time, when the Romantic and Melodramatic forms had become stilted
and there was a constant repetition of style and fettered theatrics.
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Since the birth of Realism, audiences have expected art to reflect our lives in
growing detail, often to the point of blurring the lines between the two. However,
theater itself is dying under this pressure to excel in Realism. The theater
simply cannot compete economically or realistically with film. The theater needs
to return to its foundation of challenging an audience's imagination by allowing
them to enter an alternative reality of subtleties and metaphors where animals
can talk and a person can fly. These are more than accepted conventions in the
theater -- they are the very strengths of the art form.
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The theater is an incomplete art form; it depends upon an audience's imagination
to fill in the blanks. Accepting the limitations of the stage, which when all is said
and done is an empty surface to which we bring sets, costumes, and an assortment of
theatrical devices, an audience is able to make a "leap of faith". Just
as the theater challenges an audience to accept that a backdrop is actually a vast
forest, we are in favor of works that challenge an audience to find the magic that
occurs in their every day life.
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Alternatively, contact us via email to
discuss how you might help to support our activities.
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