
Artful Making
Relies on
Emergence
Sun’s managers and employees might see something they
recognize (and like) in the way the People’s Light and Theatre
Company Artistic Director, Abigail Adams, does her work:
My directing style is based on what the actors are bringing
to rehearsal, and on making what you make out of those
particular actors then and there. You discover the play
throughout the process. I really never have an idea about
what I can do or can’t do. As a director, I’m keeping the
actors company, I’m helping to give them courage on their
journey and sometimes, roughly, I know what the journey
is. Sometimes I don’t. But I’m not on the journey with ...