Dec 18, 2019
Marcus Youssef here. Thought number nine. Thinking about a conversation I had with Sarah Benson last week. She's the artistic director of Soho Rep. And was a big part of developing the play Fairview, which is an extraordinary play about race in the United States, and representation of race in the U.S. In which, like so...
Dec 18, 2019
Hi, it's Marcus Yousef, thought number eight. I'm thinking about being a freelancer and how I'm no longer artistic director at Neworld. I stepped down from that position and the difference between controlling the conditions under which we make work. And when we don't, when you're working in relationship with others who...
Dec 16, 2019
Hi, it's uh Marcus Youssef here with thought number seven, which I think might extend into thoughts number eight and nine. Um, thinking about Saturday night when, uh, my partner and I were invited to a party for someone in our community, who was connected to many theatre people. Um, and we didn't realize it -- we knew...
Dec 11, 2019
Marcus Youssef here with thought number six.
At a production of a mainstream, big theatre musical and thinking about how it's illegal for me to take this picture. And how I really want to take a picture because this set's really beautiful -- I'm not going to say what the production is. The set's really, really...
Dec 11, 2019
Marcus Yousef here, this is thought number five.
Thinking about the ideology of busy-ness and its connection to technology. And how, you know, as we all know, like busyness can be sort of weaponized. Or I feel like I weaponize it in relationship to other people. "I'm so busy. I'm so busy." But how also that's a real...