The Kansas City Integral Theatre Project

So I've been referring to this thing in my head as "the Kansas City integral theatre project" for a while now, as that name embodies everything I know about it so far: we're all about to live in Kansas City, we're interested in starting a theatre project (whether it be a company or an entire movement), and we want it to be comprehensive or integral in a way that doesn't seem to have been previously achieved by other theatre projects in this area.

But what does that MEAN, exactly?

Here are a very few possible jumping-off points for discussion. I have ideas on all of these issues, although some are certainly less well-developed than others (and those others are about as well-developed as anything one hasn't yet put into words can be).

• The transactional nature of live performance - and specifically what goes on between the actors and the audience - ought to be consciously addressed.
  
• There has to be a more holistic approach to auditions than what we've all experienced before, both as performers and as directors.
  
• The basic yearning in my heart is for, firstly, my own enlightenment, and also for the enlightenment and liberation of my loved ones, and ultimately for that of all sentient beings. In trying to develop my own "integral life practice," I'm trying to find ways to attune all aspects of my life with this movement towards liberation. Is "theatre for enlightenment" too lofty a goal?
  
• I suspect that a truly integral theatre could be used as an educational tool for all KINDS of things, from learning about history to learning how to do your taxes. Why not? But the question is, how?

Anyway, there's some possible topics for blog entries, anyway. Not a comprehensive list, and not a draft of bylaws, by any means. But those are some of the things I'd like to see discussed. What about you?