Word: homelessness
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...Theater compels an audience to look at homeless people, something people in all cities spend their time avoiding,” the mission statement says...
Myrvaagnes toured Boston-area homeless shelters, speaking with directors and guests, putting up flyers and making announcements at meals. He scheduled informal meetings, introducing his ideas and teaching basic theater games to willing participants at the shelters...
Michael Sullivan, director of Bread and Jams, a Cambridge-based agency that provides services to the city’s homeless population, was particularly receptive to Myrvaagnes and urged homeless individuals to give the theater program...
...says he stopped writing scripts because he thought the homeless people he was working with should speak in their own words...
Myrvaagnes says he recalls one woman’s story about a community of homeless people living on federal land near MIT. She spoke of the community as family and the land as home...