Only connect.(Letter to the editor)
American Theatre, March, 2007 by Linton, Simi
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> Thank you for including Oskar Eustis's essay ("How Papp Got It Right," Jan. '07) on the simultaneous birth of theatre and democracy, along with Pamela Renner's insightful article on the theatre project at Sing Sing Prison. They are complementary statements. Eustis notes that the transition from storytelling, with its singular authorial voice, to dialogue marked the birth of theatre, and with it an exponential increase in the empathy of audiences with multiple characters and points of view: "That act--that empathic leap of imagination--is the democratic ...
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