Why Polaroids?

Why polaroids in our website’s new headers?

Because, like theatre, they’re instant.

Because they have a certain roughness, a homemade quality.

Because they can be used to invoke the past as well as the present. (The polaroid “frames” harken back to a pre-digital age, even as our use of them is obviously digital).

Because, when you pull a polaroid out of the camera, you watch it transform - literally - in front of your eyes, blooming from a grey nothingness into a record of momentary, human perception.

Transformation is at the heart of “Elixir,” the word as well as our company.

Our mission has evolved over the years - from a commitment to a theatre of immediacy and daring to exploring queer experience - but the theme of transformation has permeated each of our works. Transformation of gender and the body (from male to female, female to male, and beyond these traditional categories); transformation of societies, relationships, and the self; these ideas fueled our first production (Caryl Churchill’s Cloud 9) through our most recent (To Be Loved Version 2), and we will continue to explore them in each new project - playfully, tenaciously, sometimes very seriously, always with the aim of discovering something new about sexuality, perception, and shifting states of being.

In addition to new headers, site updates also include:

  • New, polaroid-themed navigation of our PRODUCTION ARCHIVE.
  • More RESOURCES for independent theatre, the LGBT community, and the performing arts.

As always, keep checking back for more!

June 11, 2008 | Filed Under Musings, Site Updates 

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