TOO Episode 270 - The Combative Relationship

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode Adam continues our series, 'Theatre as a way of Life', with this weeks chapter in Liberating the Audience. Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode Adam is joined by Steven Gaultney, our resident playwright and dramaturg, to discuss the notion of storytelling as a form of liberation. Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Budi sits down with Wellness Practitioner, Charlene Marie Muhammad to talk about her extensive career in the arts and as a yoga teacher.Charlene Marie Muhammad (MS, CNS, LD, E-RYT500, C-IAYT), a wellness practitioner, practicing yoga for over 30 years is a E-RYT500 yoga teacher. Since 2006, Charlene teaches weekly yoga classes for communities of color and facilitates YTT 200- and 300-hour core requirements workshops for YTT schools around the United States. She was the yoga interventionist for the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease clinical study Yoga as Self-Care for Arthritis in Minority Communities (NCT01617421). The study assessed the feasibility and acceptability of providing yoga to an urban, minority population with arthritis. Charlene has presented workshops and lectures at local, regional, national, and most recently international venues such as the keynote: Health equity and access to care: yoga’s important role in healing for the Global Yoga Therapy Day Conference (2021). Charlene holds a Master of Science Degree in Herbal Medicine from Maryland University of Integrative Health (MUIH) and is a licensed dietitian and certified yoga therapist. She is a member of the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance (BYTA) Board of Directors, served as chair for the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force for the International Association of Yoga Therapists (IAYT), and provides mentorship for the Yoga for Arthritis teacher certification program and the Certified Nutrition Specialist certification program. Mentioned in this episodeUrban Herbalist  Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi continue the 2025 book club series with 'The Natyasastra', by Bharata, which investigates Ancient Indian Theatre and Rasa Theory. Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi discuss the concept of the fourth wall in theatre, exploring its impact on the relationship between performers and the audience. Does the fourth awl obscure the audience's role, and if so, is it necessary?Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode Adam and Budi continue their conversation on Theatre as a Way of Life - this time taking an in-depth look at the Actor as a Shaman. Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi kick off their new series, Theatre as a way of Life', looking at how theatre can be a powerful, transformative experience for exploring the actor and the audience. They start by diving into what it means to be an audience member - how watching theatre can shift our awareness and make us more conscious of our own 'audienceness' in the space. Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Adam and Budi continue our Grad School Series with Chair of Graduate Acting at NYU Tisch, Carl Cofield. Carl Cofield is the Chair of Graduate Acting at NYU Tisch and has served as the Associate Artistic Director of the Classical Theatre of Harlem since 2018. CTH directing credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Seize the King, The Bacchae, Antigone, Macbeth, The Tempest, and Dutchman. He also directed  The XIXth (The Nineteenth) at the Old Globe Theatre as well as the world premiere of Kemp Powers’ One Night in Miami for Rogue Machine Theater in Los Angeles, and later iterations at Miami New Drama and Denver Center. Other directing venues include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre, and Yale Repertory. He has served on faculty at Yale School of Drama, Columbia School of the Arts, Manhattan School of Music, and the New School. Education: MFA in Directing from Columbia University.Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In the first book club episode of the year, Adam and Budi discuss The Poetics written by Aristotle, with commentary from David Bruin. Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister

Send your questions or provocations to Adam or Budi here!In this episode, Dr Budi and Adam look at identity and spirituality in the theatre. They investigate the intersection between art, culture, and the human experience, and how this shapes your own artistic practice.Support the showIf you enjoyed this week´s podcast, please leave a review on Apple Podcasts. To submit a question: Voice- http://www.speakpipe.com/theatreofothers Email- [email protected] Show Credits Co-Hosts: Adam Marple & Budi MillerProducer: Jack BurmeisterMusic: (Intro) Jack Burmeister, (Outro) https://www.purple-planet.comAdditional compositions by @jack_burmeister