Sunday, April 1, 2012

Queer Soup enters a new realm of existence. There are moments I feel frozen by it. There are moments I feel ready to leap into the next iteration. We could say we are international now, with Jess in Copenhagen for the next few years, Kim to soon join her in the fall. But what the next year brings will be if nothing else, full. Full of change. And with that comes opportunities, challenges, deer in headlight moments, a-ha moments and new collaborations. This past month we have sorted through basement full of "the stuff" collected from ten years of producing shows. My way of moving through this change and coming up on the other side ready to explore the next phase of Queer Soup is to sort through this stuff, purge what is no longer needed and organize what we are keeping. It's this physical activity that helps me to feel less overwhelmed, less stuck and inspired to move ahead. I look forward to all the conversations and collaborations that are ahead, and to creating and developing stories for the stage that need to be told. Queer Soup is changing, but some things are staying the same, our commitment to collaboration and creating provocative queer theater. Stay tuned...