Deconstruction

Today, my good friend Mitch Dean sent to me a quote from the film “The Education of Charlie Banks”, noting that the short dialogue reminded him of my interests as a director and the work of The Deconstructive Theatre Project. The quote is really quite spot-on regarding how I choose to approach the creation of a work and my on-going interest in point of view and notions of “truth” across history. I’d like to share the quote here.

As one character asks another what “deconstruction” is, the second responds as follows:

“It’s like, he’s takes something apart, right? And you see all of it’s threads. You see that all of these threads have different meanings and examine how these meanings were imposed upon these threads. I guess, you kind of reveal all the contradictions and inconsistencies and you see that there’s no one truth expressed; there is no one absolute truth.”