Co-director Serge Velez brought up a good point in our directors' meeting last night. If this play is called "America," what about all the other states? Most of our discussion has focused on New York City and the area immediately surrounding it. How is New York connected to the other states in the Union? (Sita suggested that NYC ought to be its own country.)
How many of us involved in this production have been to other states? Which ones have we been to?
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I lived in Massachusetts from the age of 13 to 19 and life there is very different from New York
where in Massachusetts did you live, Kristina? Was it in the city or the suburbs? I grew up in a suburban town called Milton, MA, which is just south of Boston.
Been to Virginia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and upstate New York.
This October I spent a weekend in Maryland and even though it's only a three-four hour drive away, it's scary how differently people speak and think there.
Sita is completely right - NYC is a country of its own and so are all technologically advanced cities, such as Tokio, Moscow, Amsterdam, New York, Los Angeles - none of them seem anything like the country they are set in.
Yes, Kat, the urban/rural divide is a big one in many countries - not just the US.
I'm noticing that a lot of us have spent most of our time in the Northeast. Has anyone been to the deep South, the Midwest, the West Coast? How are things different in those places?
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