3 FRAMES / BY ME ..view at the culmination of a unique iteration
3 FRAMES / BY ME ..view at the culmination of a unique iteration
by, Tom Minter
.. fresh from having completed the full-length play By Me You’ll Never Know in January of 2020, it was a challenge to discern why I’d even written such a work on caste, class, and spectrum to ‘weight of legacy’ as ‘the undiscussed’.
-..who would be interested…? And even for those interested, how would an audience experience the paradigm of this work, as, by March 2021, we were already at the rim of an unprecedented health challenge, and then pandemic hiatus.
It was also a moment that bent into an imperative; the conversations in the play were the architecture of the work, and if I could craft core points of entry as blueprint of the work, I might well be able to offer fodder for engagement in such process of workshop.
By August of 2020 I had support in making the choice to curate the meat of ‘the undiscussed’ -sieving into its sediment of biases in its undercurrent of ‘otherness’ -and sculpting 3 Frames / By Me, which became opportunity of an immersive journey in the ‘untethered landscape’ of its main character, KEN.
And in shaping this experience in 3 frames, I fell upon a way to workshop three of the most specific tranches of conversation that are the architecture of the whole; building a solid underpinning for the arc and journey of the full play, whose complete architecture is already aimed for workshop and pre-production in 2022/23.
Tyrone Mitchell and Quick Silver Theater Company sponsored the initial frame’s journey in March 2021; the next workshop was hosted by The Phillips Collection, in July 2021, through the direct agency of Makeba Clay, Horning Chair for Diversity, Equity, Access, and Inclusion.
Now, November 2021, the full tapestry of this curated iteration of 3 Frames / By Me will be unfurled. Its presentations are being hosted by Alliance for New Music Theater.
There is further goal as culmination beyond November, anticipated as berth in an incubator presentation at Cross Currents Festival 2022, hosted by The Laboratory for Global Performance & Politics.
The immersive experience of 3 Frames / By Me has acquired a network of support, in a generosity of talent and creativity, through other journeying Creatives across astonishing and varied moments of serendipity, and recognition.
The presentations of this will occur on Friday November 19 at 7pm; with repeated presentations on Saturday, November 20 November at 2pm, and again at 6pm.
This is thehyper- link to the Eventbrite portal for registration.
It is wonderful being able to invite you to be ‘in the room’ to experience this work!
..and hopefully, onward!