Q: Can you please introduce yourself?
I am Nick Carpenter and I am STUFF’s Dramaturg.
Q: What does being a part of building and performing in STUFF mean to you?
For the first time, since working as a Park Interpreter in Kananaskis Country in the 1990s, this represents a re-engagement with theatre that focuses on climate and the environment. But Stuff is wiser and more ambitious than anything I worked on back then. 30 years on, I’m proud to contribute to a play whose central and burning question is as eternal as it is timely: What is it to sacrifice?
Q: What do you think of what the Teenage Task Force tries to do in 365 days?
Courageously generous
Profoundly creative
Stingingly provocative
Just so crazy it might work
Q: Before audiences see STUFF, what would you like to tell or ask them?
Hey, nice jeans! I’ve got a pair just like ’em.
Q: When the audience leaves STUFF, you hope they will–
- Realize that the reason it’s so easy to put ourselves in the shoes of STUFF’s characters is because we are all already wearing them.
- That the one thing we will NEVER give up is creating and attending theatre.
Q: What’s an object (stuff) that you think that humans should give up or let go of?
Unrealistically: The family car(s)
Realistically (but won’t happen without a fight): Ultra-processed food
Easily: Anything we are about to buy in an airport gift shop. Write ’em a poem on the plane, instead.
Q: What’s an object (stuff) that would be very hard for you to give up?
My piano.
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