Matthew Reynolds is the director of drama and dance at the Crater Renaissance Academy of Arts and Sciences in Central Point. In 2010, Reynolds’ students wrote an original play about life in Central Point that they performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. The Crater High School students have again been invited to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2014. The group is raising funds for the trip. I chatted with Reynolds over lunch at La Casa del Pueblo in Ashland.
EH: Why are some people passionate about theater?
MR: I think it is the passion towards humanity, that desire to see humanity. For those of us who get on stage, why do we go on stage in this dark space with others whom we don’t know? It’s seeing us as healers of society, motivators of society, as we move forward and tell our collective stories.
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