Victor Garber: “You can only do so much theatre.
Isabelle Huppert: “But theatre is always a difficult experience.”
Juliet Stevenson: “I sometimes think that theatre is a torture.”
Katherine Dunham: “You know, this isn’t theatre like it used to be.”
The Malden Yacht Club is an unstructured association of people who like to kayak, and in that way we are not much different from any other paddling group. Yet we are different, or at least that’s what we prefer to believe. You see, we are more than just a kayak club, or more accurately, we are less than just a kayak club. You might say that we are part kayak club, part liar’s club, because we can’t deny that we are also a storytelling group. We tell stories when we paddle, even if paddling solo, which might be a bit disturbing, and we tell stories when we’re not paddling. Some of us tell stories at the mini-park. Some of us tell stories on the blog. Some tell them while they sleep. It doesn’t matter where we are or what we’re doing. If we are there, so are the stories. They don’t have to be about kayaking, they don’t even have to make sense, they just have to be tales that someone wants to tell. It should come as no surprise, then, that I am about to expose you to a story that could have been told at the mini-park without the raise of an eyebrow, but instead has found its way to the blog. It’s not about kayaking, it doesn’t even make sense, but what can you expect? It’s being told by women. Continue reading ‘Culture Is A Relative Concept’ »