When TheatreWorks director Leslie Martinson asked Ken Savage to be a "cultural consultant" for "Water by the Spoonful" - a Pulitzer Prize-winning play that explores the often fraught world of online chat rooms - Savage relished the chance. The drama, by Quiara Alegría Hudes, involves members of a Narcotics Anonymous chat room, and Martinson wanted her actors to feel fully immersed in the world of online communication. "Ken was so helpful navigating the rules of online chat, which are even more elaborate for recovery chat rooms," said Martinson, who is also the associate artistic director at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto. In his research for the play, Savage says he was most struck by warnings to chat room users that recovery sites and online forums are not meant to be substitutes for human interaction. "The Narcotics Anonymous chat rooms that I looked into stressed the importance of having physical sponsors outside the chat room and encouraged users to treat the chat rooms as supplementary to going to actual meetings," he says. Like many of his generation, Savage finds himself utilizing almost as much digital communication as actual communication, but after having worked on "Water by the Spoonful" with Martinson and her actors, he says his big takeaway involved the notion of respect.
Stanford Graduate's Expertise Helps Theatreworks' 'water By The Spoonful'
Chad Jones, San Francisco Chronicle: Entertainment
Sun, 08/31/2014 - 3:20pm
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