Creating Creativity

Creativity spawns creativity. I always – somehow – manage to forget that until it happens in a big way.

Over the weekend, I participated my theatre troupe’s annual 24-Hour Play Festival. Fifth anniversary edition! And we had about 50 people participate as writers, directors, and actors – the biggest year so far.

I didn’t write this year, but I really enjoyed acting in it. I had a wonderful team to work and a pretty great play to work with.

The overall quality of the shows improved noticeably from last year. Rather than a few stand-out performances, every show had something that set it apart and made it memorable. And most of the writers had little to no experience, which made the shows even more amazing.

The festival is a creative space. A safely creative space.

We crammed 50 of us into a grange hall, so some of us rehearsed in the auditorium, some in the dining hall, some in the stairwell, and some outside on the lawn. We gathered for the collaborative effort of creating and performing plays that hadn’t existed 24 hours ago.

Yeah, it was that awesome.

Because we had so many people focused on the same (or at least similar) goals, the creative energy was through the roof. I firmly believe that’s a big reason why we had so many amazing shows.

We will have video of the shows posted at some point, but for now here’s a link to the video of the play I wrote last year.

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