Watch Night - co-conceived by its director and choreographer, Bill T.
“A body of witnesses makes possible a communal healing of wounds.” These “traditions of public judgment,” he asserts, are “the ancestors of tragic theater.” Right now, within very different dramatic containers, two productions are bearing tragic witness to great fissures in justice itself - wounds that, old or new or ongoing, feel raw and deep, incompletely healed, if at all.
“Justice needs a witness,” the scholar Paul Woodruff wrote. From Brian Friel’s Translations at the Irish Rep.
