Performances
Theatre of Memory courts the overview, abandoning itself occasionally to giddy little binges of specialization. Each story is told through the hands-on examination of ancient and modern documents, art and artifacts, and specimen-quality pieces of the fossil record as well as meteorites from space.
In neither collection nor presentation is the Theatre of Memory constrained by the scientific method; we admit to other ordering principles. And though we appear to play fast and loose in matters of taxonomy, there is a great respect here for the hard-won methods and ordering principles of science, and the scientist's remarkable attempts at objectivity. In history, where objectivity is (at best) a charming fiction, we do admit to an editorial subjectivity caused, in part, by a limited acquisition budget. Where we have a choice our slant tends more toward the "New Cultural History" which examines common men and women, rather than the "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" school of approach. Any errors in fact, interpretation or judgment are our own and we welcome being corrected by those more knowledgeable, through polite discourse. In fact, and in practice, a driving force of our endeavor is to raise the level of discourse wherever and whenever possible.
Theatre of Memory performances are resonant with these insights and sentiments:
In neither collection nor presentation is the Theatre of Memory constrained by the scientific method; we admit to other ordering principles. And though we appear to play fast and loose in matters of taxonomy, there is a great respect here for the hard-won methods and ordering principles of science, and the scientist's remarkable attempts at objectivity. In history, where objectivity is (at best) a charming fiction, we do admit to an editorial subjectivity caused, in part, by a limited acquisition budget. Where we have a choice our slant tends more toward the "New Cultural History" which examines common men and women, rather than the "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men" school of approach. Any errors in fact, interpretation or judgment are our own and we welcome being corrected by those more knowledgeable, through polite discourse. In fact, and in practice, a driving force of our endeavor is to raise the level of discourse wherever and whenever possible.
Theatre of Memory performances are resonant with these insights and sentiments:
I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings!
-Robert Louis Stevenson
and is told by putting shading and emphasis where they belong.
-John Crowley Ægypt
nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
-Ariel Durant
-Voltaire
when you're doin' what you're doin'.
It's what you're doin' when you're doin'
what you look like you're doin'!
-Charles Wright and the Watts