It was a STRANGEFEELING, filming a night SCENE in Selly Oak High Street with a television crew and FAMOUS actors in tow, when twenty years ago, at that time of night, I would've been STUMBLING around in search of a kebab.
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the SEARCH for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or WRITING about a fresco by Giotto or STUDYING how a SNAIL climbs up a WALL.
Before 1994, many South Africans used theater as a voice of PROTEST against the government. But with the end of apartheid, LIKE the artists who watched the FALL of the Iron Curtain in Europe, theater had to find NEW voices and search for new ISSUES.
No president can FORCE shuttered mills to reopen, or companies who've left in SEARCH of cheaper labor to relocate to the United STATES (or those who have COME back to choose expensive humans over cheaper ROBOTS).
I always found it interesting when you went off to college, PEOPLEWOULD talk about how you GO and search for your own IDENTITY. A lot of suburban middle-class kids would be shopping for identities and they would co-opt identities from other cultures.
We need more PARTNERSHIPS like Vigor Industrial and Portland Community College where men and women in search of a career can GET the training they need to get HIREDRIGHT out of SCHOOL.