And eventually we came to find the Studs Terklel material. There's an intimacy to it, a personal connection that we were seeking as we were working on it. But, for me, I prefer stories that one person would tell to the camera in the Zoom as if that was one person they were talking to in a bar or a coffee house. So the combination of those factors led us to understanding the way we could still work would be individual storytelling. So already there's a disassociation if you're an audience member. With the technological limitations of Zoom - the slight delay, it's impossible to get in a rhythm, overlap on dialogue and, in addition, you've got two people in separate rooms pretending to be in the same room. I found very quickly that when we were doing our workshops remotely on Zoom that it was very difficult to do scenes with each other. Robbins: When we started this it wasn't with the intention of doing a production. So talk, for you, about the sense of optimism you wanted to convey when you chose this play. So I think it's important to remind people that in the midst of all this struggle we have to remember the human heart, love and compassion and empathy for others.īaltin: You say that in your notes. And I guess it never dawned on me because part of what I love about music is how it can, in the midst of hard times, lift our spirits. But I'd say it's Hezekiah Jenkins, "The Panic Is On," and "Pastures Of Plenty," also I would say "Deportee," Woody Guthrie, because it talks about illegal deportation of U.S. What would be the one song from Tom Waits that encapsulates this experience? That'd be a hard one to come up with right now. Robbins: It's so hard when you talk about people you love and to think about the one song. And that's what I always responded to in music, what kind of stories were the songwriters telling.īaltin: What songs would be on your playlist for the show? And then also just the songwriters, they were writing about what it is to be homeless and traveling on trains looking for work.
This is what I've always responded to in music and in songs, the idea that a song can take you into the experience of what Okie migrants were going through at the time. Tim Robbins: For me, it all starts with Woody Guthrie, that whole era of songwriting and essentially storytelling.
So are there songs you hear in We Live On? I remember seeing you host the Dead Man Walking concert at the Shrine in 1998.
Steve Baltin: I know you are a big music fan. The Actors' Gang We Live On based on Hard Times by Studs Terkel - The Actors' Gang
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