The Espresso is a monthly publication, however, I am in San Diego theatres on a weekly basis. With Espresso-Refill the publication "replenishes" our reader's interest with commentary news and information on San Diego's quality in crafting a living art form in its theatres.
It is a given that theatre's and its workers are deemed with task of transforming their audience. The Espresso finds this challenge especially important as the Theatre searches to draw new audiences (and their monies) away from a potential audience's comfortable chosen electronic dominated environments.
The interest of Dyo's Graffiti is identifying and sharing observations of stage works that surpass the current strife of mediocrity seen on local stages. Exploring with a "shop talk" POV Dyo's keen interest is to corroborate quality one-of-a-kind rich shared experience for an audience and its theatre workers.

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Lofty words? No. For the uninitiated this means; when a paying member of an audience leaves a theatre her or his mind heart and spirit should have been altered in some way, you are the arbiter of these results.
You may find yourself stunned and somewhat unfocused once the houselights come up. You may not speak to your theatre companion for a while as you continue to process the work you’re “returning from” and that’s okay.
These results resonate after hearing the traffic report the next morning. Images from the previous evening haunt pleasantly or otherwise, a word or phrase “sticks” in your ear causing you to reconsider its meaning and meaning in context of your experience. There is always that hoped for “Leaving the theatre humming a tune” from the musical that just brought down its curtain. This, too, happens.

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