Theater excites me when it offers us new perspectives, when it challenges our understanding of whose stories are worthy of being told on the stage, when it accepts as a matter of course that non-normative identities are valid and do not need to be justified. While I can and do appreciate well-told stories of conventional romance, conventional strife, conventional growth, it is the well-told stories that feel truly new that make me lean forward in my seat.
Shows excite me when they throw me a twist that I didn't see coming and yet feel perfectly obvious in hindsight-- "I should have seen that coming!" Characters excite me when I think I have everything figured out and then the characters surprise me by showing new sides to themselves, when they push themselves or bare themselves or reveal themselves. Plays excite me when they 'go there,' when they don't shy away from the truth of the stories with which they engage.
Shows excite me when they throw me a twist that I didn't see coming and yet feel perfectly obvious in hindsight-- "I should have seen that coming!" Characters excite me when I think I have everything figured out and then the characters surprise me by showing new sides to themselves, when they push themselves or bare themselves or reveal themselves. Plays excite me when they 'go there,' when they don't shy away from the truth of the stories with which they engage.