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CHOICEWORK: Defining Character, Onstage and Off
WHEN: Sunday, October 25 - 6pm MT, 8pm ET
WHERE: Forrest McClendon’s living room (a secure link to the private YouTube presentation will be sent Season 10 Members prior to this event)
ABOUT THE EVENT: Forrest McClendon (Flame Broiled. or the ugly play, Local Lab ‘19) returns for Living Room Local to discuss CHOICEWORK, his unique creative process originally designed to build character onstage, now being used to develop Reparations, his new autobiographical play about race and racism.
CHOICEWORK is dramaturgical detective work for storytellers—a series of questions from Age to Zodiac sign—that shape narrative and reveal character. Religion, ancestry, culture and ethnicity are a few of the biographical questions that can identify (for the actor) the lived experiences of the character, enabling a better understanding of another person’s narrative.
The same questions can also be revelatory offstage. They allow us as individuals to take a closer look at our identity and, moreover, spark transformative intergroup dialogue and discovery. This one-hour interactive salon offers viewers an opportunity to use CHOICEWORK to better see themselves and one another.
ABOUT OUR HOST: Tony® Award Nominee Forrest McClendon is a speaker, artist and educator, widely known for his performance in The Scottsboro Boys (Tony nomination, Best Featured Actor in a Musical), which he reprised in London (Young Vic/Garrick).
LEARN MORE: ForrestMcClendon.com
