What does God want from the theatre?
Le Theatre du Soleil
Now there's a question.
I met with the leadership of the local CITA (Christians in Theatre Arts) chapter last night. The major agenda item was to brainstorm various future events that might be attractive and helpful to Christians in the area who are working in various branches of theatre--professional and community theatres, academic settings, or in church drama. Planning events that can appeal to all the above can be a challenge given that many Christians working in professional theatre prefer to keep a healthy distance between themselves and anything that smacks of religious (or worse, church) drama, and academics, as teachers, researchers, and keepers of theory and crit, are sometimes an uneasy fit in the mix.
But the first major event, held (probably) in February or March 2005, is going to be centered around a pretty decent question, one that hits all us professionals, academics, and church drama folk square on our collective noses.
What does God want from the theatre?
It's the kind of question that makes me tilt my head a little, the way dogs do, as if I'm not quite sure how to take the words in. Why would God want anything from the theatre? And what do you mean "the theatre?" Why refer to theatre as if were a living thing, capable of responding to what God might or might not want from it? It's like anything else, isn't it, not really capable of being Christian--only people can be Christian (strictly speaking).
What does God want from the theatre?
Any thoughts?
11:29:14 PM
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