Comments on: Failure as Freedom: Part One http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/failure-as-freedom-part-one/ A Home for Theatrefolk's Amazing Playwrights Wed, 08 Feb 2012 00:54:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Allison Williams http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/failure-as-freedom-part-one/#comment-2806 Allison Williams Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:06:04 +0000 http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/?p=2244#comment-2806 Some fireflies for you! Happy failure! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI4JLa0hbUw Some fireflies for you! Happy failure!

]]> By: Lindsay Price http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/failure-as-freedom-part-one/#comment-2805 Lindsay Price Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:30:20 +0000 http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/?p=2244#comment-2805 It's that fine line between trying to pay the mortgage and taking 'art' to a whole other level. Both sides, are pretty valid. It's nice paying the mortgage. But I just wish it wasn't the be all and the end all. On that, it's one of the great advantages of being in a small company. It's easier to take risk because the consequences of failure are far less catastrophic. It’s that fine line between trying to pay the mortgage and taking ‘art’ to a whole other level. Both sides, are pretty valid. It’s nice paying the mortgage. But I just wish it wasn’t the be all and the end all. On that, it’s one of the great advantages of being in a small company. It’s easier to take risk because the consequences of failure are far less catastrophic.

]]> By: cynthia newberry martin http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/failure-as-freedom-part-one/#comment-2804 cynthia newberry martin Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:23:01 +0000 http://www.theatrefolk.com/blog/?p=2244#comment-2804 Lindsay, you're right. Failure does not equal stupidity. And not enough is said about what failure can do for us--give us more resolve as you've mentioned and teach us new tricks as well. Mainly as you said, it's that fear of failure that keeps us from taking the risks necessary to bust through that same-old same-old. I was once in a fiction class with Dorothy Allison and she told us to write a bad poem. With that assignment, she wiped out our fear of failing to write a good poem and enabled us all to see what we could do. Lindsay, you’re right. Failure does not equal stupidity. And not enough is said about what failure can do for us–give us more resolve as you’ve mentioned and teach us new tricks as well. Mainly as you said, it’s that fear of failure that keeps us from taking the risks necessary to bust through that same-old same-old.

I was once in a fiction class with Dorothy Allison and she told us to write a bad poem. With that assignment, she wiped out our fear of failing to write a good poem and enabled us all to see what we could do.

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