Directing Big River Isaac Lamb shares his thoughts on directing Big River playing July 28 - 31 at the New Stage, 12850 SW Grant Ave in Tigard.
I love to tell stories. It’s such an important function of a community. It’s the way we remind ourselves of our collective values, and it’s the process by which we edit and reshape those values. There is no story more valuable to our collective American consciousness than the deeply painful scar of slavery. In 1885, Mark Twain first tried to tell a part of that story in his novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Today, this cast of 18 young people tells it again, in their own way. I couldn’t be prouder of this group of students. They have reminded me, day in and day out, exactly what it means to be passionate about something. And they have created a much more powerful and touching story than I might have ever imagined. They are the hardest-working and most talented bunch of students I’ve ever worked with, and in the light of telling this show’s story…they have created a truly beautiful and diverse community.
I hope you’ll let yourself be swept along the Mississippi with them.
