And she really means out in the elements. Luminous Streets takes audiences from place to place, popping into businesses near 50th and York to view works written for those spaces. Or at least near them, in the case of Banish him by Tyree Marshall.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was developed specifically for this sidewalk outside of Caf\u00e9 De Leche,\u201d Bliss said, standing on the corner in front of the coffeeshop.<\/p>\n
The short pieces are written by different playwrights but centered on one theme: women\u2019s survival and pursuit of justice.<\/p>\n
The women in these plays are dealing with issues like domestic violence, alcoholism, poverty \u2014 issues that Bliss said The Roots and Wings Project has often tackled over its 20-year history as a \u201cfemme-charged, socially transformative theater company.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs women, we are definitely still fighting for a world that has equity and justice,\u201d she explained. \u201cMy mother had more rights than my daughter has.\u201d<\/p>\n
Playwright and producer Roger Q. Mason has worked with Bliss for years. For them, projects like this are all about creating spaces for marginalized voices, including transgender and gender nonconforming writers.<\/p>\n
\u201cStatistically, we know that we don\u2019t have enough stories about women and femme folks and, you know, as a TGNC person, we certainly don\u2019t have enough stories by and about and with people that live outside of the binary,\u201d they said. \u201cTo me, any time you get to amplify and support a femme or femme-presenting artist, it\u2019s chipping away at the bias that silences the voices that need to be heard.\u201d<\/p>\n
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(Spectrum News\/Tara Lynn Wagner)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Including incarcerated women. The project also runs a writing program at the women\u2019s prison in Chino, something Bliss is particularly passionate about.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe consider those writers every single bit of part of our company as anyone doing work out here,\u201d she stressed. \u201cWe really try to bridge the worlds where we see the work as one.\u201d<\/p>\n
In a way, Mason says, all theater is site specific. Audiences enter an environment created for them by artists. Being in a non-traditional setting may require a little creative thinking, a degree of trust and a willingness to go on the journey.<\/p>\n
\u201cSite specific theater, I think, is just a beautiful reminder that we\u2019re always present and we should always be in the moment when we receive theatrical work,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n
Bliss agrees. The world has become so disconnected, she said, in part because of technology, and she sees live theater as a way to break out of that pattern.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou need to put your phone down and be in time and space with other people,\u201d Bliss explained.<\/p>\n
And that space doesn\u2019t need to be a traditional theater for that to be true.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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