<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">Heads Up Productions might work in strange and interesting ways to create theatre. The Artistic Director, Benjamin Rexroad, tries to explain one of the reasons why the company works the way it does in the company's newest blog post. </span></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">"The Only Duty of a Storyteller..."</span></font></div><div><br></div><div><i><b>Recently I attended a workshop with Mythologist Michael Meade. It was
entitled, “Initiated Soul, Awakened Self.” The workshop involved
drumming & songs, stories and moments of deep, intense communion.
It struck me how closely our work as a theatre company coincides with
his work as a mythologist.</b></i></div><div><i><b><br></b></i></div><div><i><b>This shouldn’t come as a surprise. Western theatre is firmly rooted in
myth. From the ancient Greeks to Grotowski to present day companies
like Heads Up & </b></i><i><b>New World Performance Lab</b></i><i><b> our theatrical tradition venerates, explores, confronts and explodes our collective myths.</b></i></div><div><br></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;">To continue reading visit the website </span></font><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><a href="http://www.headsupproductions.net">www.headsupproductions.net</a></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">We welcome all comments. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Also, visit the <a href="http://www.headsupproductions.net/corpus-christi">Corpus Christi</a> page to see our show pictures!</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div></body></html>