T41- 2 currently exists in storage, waiting for its next incarnation, which is in development with the support of True Love Productions. My hope is that someday there will be multiple booths in different shapes and sizes, (T41 1 - 20), that are created specifically for the needs of each new performance. I envision Theatre for One having a rotating body of work that includes music, dance, poetry and multimedia productions. Any kind of event created for one, to be shared by two, has a home in Theatre for One.

THE HEARING BOOTHS is a Theatre for One related project in development with Jane Cox, designed to heighten individual connections to the act of listening, as well as to the act of playing, music.

In an open space music is playing. Within this space are a number of Hearing Booths equal to the number of Playing Musicians. One booth, constructed in clear plexi, contains the Conductor. The other booths are opaque. Each contains a musician along with their instrument. The shape of the booth reflects its contents.

In the open space the audience can hear the entire musical work. Lights above the doors to the booths indicate vacancies. Listeners can move in and out of the booths at will. Upon entering, one is brought into a One on One relationship with the musician, their instrument, and the notes the musician is playing in the moment. If the musician's part in that moment is silence, the player and hearer share the silence.

By moving in and out of the booths, the music can be experienced in its wholeness and in its parts. There is an opportunity for less tuned ears to hear the skeleton of a composition that might be elusive, and there is the chance for all to have a moment during which each of the notes is being played for you and you alone.

One of my favorite phrases comes from StoryCorps*: "listening is an act of love".

In the Hearing Booths, "listening and playing are both acts of love".