Sketching Things Out

Long before I ever considered it as a career path, Theatre was identified as a “collaborative art.” The composition, which is to say the experience of taking in the performance, isn’t crafted by any one individual artist, but by the intersection of many. These include actors, writers, musicians and designers of all sorts. In this way, the art of the Director is concerned with providing a platform and environment for all of these artists to do their own unique work, while simultaneously acting as a sort of lens that focuses those disparate beams of light into a single, coherent vision that is the production.

This year, Idle Muse Theatre Company is exploring ways of taking this core idea even further and we’ll be ready to start talking about it in detail soon. The below is a sketch by illustrator Tom Kyzivat, inspired by reading Sherlock Holmes and conversations about the text. Check out more of Tom’s work at his site Murderous Automaton and consider the below a “teaser” of things to come.