Barack Obama, you’ve done it. now please go make the most of this opportunity, and privilege. here’s to the next great chapter in our planet’s history, and a better and hopeful future.
Author: meattle
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Stay slim, build something great, evangelize like crazy. Repeat.
“The cost of a pure, boot-strapped, startups today is really the time the founders put into it. Don’t pay for software, don’t sign an office lease, and don’t hire a PR firm. Stay slim, build something great and wait. If it doesn’t grow make the product better and wait some more. Keep that process up until you find something that makes people absolutely rabid for your product.” — Jason Calacanis
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Anna Deavere Smith at The American Repertory Theatre this month
I had the privilege last week to attend blogger night at The American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.) in Harvard Square.
Anna Deavere Smith, a Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize nominated writer, performer, and professor performed “LET ME DOWN EASY a play in evolution”.
Anna first caught my eye about a year ago, as I was traversing through TED videos. It was one of those videos that stuck (embedded below). I just had to jump on this opportunity to catch her play in-person. And it did not disappoint
The play spans ~2.5 hours, it’s a one-woman show, in which Anna does an absolutely amazing job of playing multiple, diverse characters, exploring the question “how do we pursue grace and kindness in a competitive and sometimes distressing world?” through her characters.
I recommend you check out this play.
Thank you Sooz for organizing the event!
About the Production:
Well known to A.R.T. audiences as the creator of Fires in the Mirror, Anna Deavere Smith is one of the most acclaimed and provocative writers and performers of our time. Her latest one-woman show, LET ME DOWN EASY a play in evolution, is a journey in search of human qualities that are too seldom in the news – compassion, generosity, and grace.
Channeling a dramatic range of interview subjects, from sports stars and philosophers to healthcare professionals and survivors of the Rwandan genocide, Anna Deavere Smith asks a question for our age: how do we pursue grace and kindness in a competitive and sometimes distressing world? Generous and powerful in its vision, LET ME DOWN EASY a play in evolution is a virtuosic exploration of the resourcefulness of the human spirit.
Anna at TED:
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I have always been a pragmatist.
“People who are reformers often give very tough speeches and don’t reform anything. It makes no difference when they come or go. I have always been a pragmatist.” — Henry Paulson, Treasury Secretary & Former CEO of Goldman Sachs
source: Fortune Magazine, September ’08