New Hampshire Theatre Project
provides a welcoming environment for youth, artists, and community members to experience self-discovery and growth through the art and process of theatre.
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provides a welcoming environment for youth, artists, and community members to experience self-discovery and growth through the art and process of theatre.
Watch a video of our story
New Hampshire Theatre Project has been making theatre with communities for over thirty years, and in the wake of the Covid-19 Global Pandemic NHTP launched The We Don’t Know What This Is Yet Podcast. We gathered accounts from individuals, held space for community dialogue, and directly engaged and supported a diverse pool of artists in the creation of new work.
Each episode of the podcast is in two parts: First, we’ll sat down with a guest and talk to them about a simple theme: uncertainty. We spoke to people from all sorts of backgrounds throughout the state: medical workers, restaurateurs, small business owners, corrections officers, people in recovery, religious leaders….. and asked "What does uncertainty mean to each of us? What feels uncertain about our paths and our fields right now?".
Then in part two, we gave each interview to a different artist and ask them to create something - anything - inspired by these conversations. It could be a song, some poetry, a painting, a photo series, or even a dance. And we talked to these creators about their experience making this work: What inspired them? What did they relate to? What seemed unfamiliar? What were their own uncertainties in this process?
The podcast served as source material to We Don’t Know What This Is Yet’s culminating work. “The plan was always to make a new play, about this moment,” continues Stewart. “It’s what we promised our supporters last June, and it’s what NHTP does - we uncover and amplify the stories of our community, across the state, and transform them into provocative theatre.” The Uncertainty Principle premiered June 10 - 13 2021 for audiences around the globe. In science, the Uncertainty Principle states that "the momentum and position of a particle cannot both be precisely determined at the same time." Using this theme as a metaphor for the ever-changing landscape of life during the Covid-19 pandemic, NHTP artists created a new docudrama based on interviews with community members between April 2020 and April 2021.
Learn more about the project as a whole here!
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