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Get Into It: “Theatre Director”

The “Get Into It” interviews find interesting people and asks them three questions about their interests. Ideally, this will have nothing to do with literature. Too often while bopping around the litmag web haunts, it can feel like a claustrophobic room of monomaniacal chatbots. “Get Into It” should serve as a reminder that we are all practicing an art, or refining a craft, or competing in a sport. Let’s hear what’s driving others to proliferating browser tabs and insomniac nights. And maybe we’ll find a new obsession while we’re at it.

I first came to know the work of Brian Bell, a theatre director and actor who divides his time between Chicago and Germany, through Cabaret Vagabond, where he is the creative director. Intelligence without condescension, humor without irony, and above above all, an earnest reverence for art is conveyed in everything Brian touches. Currently, he is raising funds for Projekt G. This is a “devised theatrical work.” It was created in Berlin and will be traveling to Fukushima this summer.

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