LAPD

The experience didn’t begin when I arrived at LAPD, it began when I was driving into LA. I’ve been into downtown LA many times, and it never ceases to amaze me how you can drive into a corporate area, a business area, see people in suits, and tall buildings, and how literally a few blocks later, the entire canvas changes into something else. You see people pushing their carts that contains their entire life, see people sleeping on the streets, and a whole part of a city that is ignored.
I thoroughly enjoyed the performance that LAPD did for us. Something that I really enjoyed about it, other than just the subject matter, was this idea of theatre with no judgement. This is something that I have been thinking about for a long time. These people were performing something that was close to their heart, they were not thinking about blocking, voice, or other things that actors with formal training think about. They were just being and doing what they wanted, and as a result, what they produced, I felt was something that was spectacular. They were just doing theatre, not worried about anything else other than just making art. The LAPD is a space where they could do that. Also, when I first walked into the space, I didn’t think about it as a theatre space. As soon as they began to perform, it was transformed into something else other than an office. Just reminded me that any space can be considered a theatre space if the performers are dedicated, which LAPD was.