Variation #51: Nina Lee Aquino & Nigel Shawn Williams
As the Interim Artistic Directors of Factory Theatre, Nina Lee Aquino & Nigel Shawn Williams announced their upcoming season earlier this week. We asked them to provide an artistic response to the shows they selected for that season in the form of our 51st Variation on Theatre.
Every Letter Counts by Nina Lee Aquino
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“Between his interest in words and his architect’s love of structure and order, [Alfred Mosher] Butts decided to work on a word game that utilized a grid concept. In addition, he wanted to create a game that combined both luck and skill, with stronger emphasis on skill. He also liked the idea of 100 tiles. As he began his first set of sketches, Butts called his boardless anagram game idea Lexiko, which later evolved into the board game Criss Cross Words.”
– Everything Scrabble: Third Edition by Joe Edley & John D. Williams Jr.
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Do You Want What I Have Got? A Craigslist Cantata by Bill Richardson & Veda Hille
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“When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.”
– Hunter S. Thompson
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Iceland by Nicolas Billon
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“People are always asking me about eskimos, but there are no eskimos in Iceland.”
– Björk
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Stopheart by Amy Lee Lavoie
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“All of us grow up in particular realities – a home, family, a clan, a small town, a neighborhood. Depending upon how we’re brought up, we are either deeply aware of the particular reading of reality into which we are born, or we are peripherally aware of it. “
– Chaim Potok
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Photo of Nina Lee Aquino and Nigel Shawn Williams by Jonathan Heppner – click to read more about their new season
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