# Susanna Fournier

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Susanna Fournier - Thought #9 - Deborah Hay

Challenging myself to remember Deborah Hay, I challenge everyone to remember Deborah Hay, this morning, and always, with the question (ask yourself, as she would ask you - perhaps) "What if where I am, is what I need?" What if where I am, is what I need? What if where I am, is what I need.

Susanna Fournier - Thought #8 - Fear and Faith as Teachers

I'm currently pan frying eggs because to be an independent artist means multi-tasking every minute of the day, or at least it does for me, and I'm thinking of the old proverb ...when the student is ready the teacher arrives. When I think about the massive, total upheaval just about every aspect of‮…

Susanna Fournier - Thought #7 - Confronting the Wound

When was the last time you saw a dangerous piece of art? ted witzel, a long-time collaborator of mine, was asked this yesterday and then he asked me. It's pretty rare in my experience. I want processes of making art to be safe but I don't want art to be "safe". A lot of people have called my work ‮…

Susanna Fournier - Thought #6 - Capacity

Capacity. What is it, where do you find it, and how much do you have? What do you do when you need more? What do you do when you blow out the gas tank? What's the connection between capacity and forgiveness? Capacity and sustainability? Capacity and self awareness? Capacity and threshold? Capacity‮…

Susanna Fournier - Thought #5 - Pain Will Find a Way Out

I'm thinking about how one way or another pain must find a way to express. I just spent 7 and a half hours in a psychiatric emergency ward with someone I love very much who is currently experiencing psychosis. His pain ...forced its way to the surface. He needed to go somewhere where he could scre‮…

Susanna Fournier - Thought #4 - Feeling Feelings

I'm thinking about feeling feelings. I became displaced this summer -- I lost my home & most of my possessions over a 3 month period of ...well...hell. I haven't had time to feel the feelings that come with this - grief and rage - the way I normally would...by writing. Looking back, I think I beca‮…

Susanna Fournier - Thought #3 - Dogs and Democracy

I'm currently rehearsing a text I began 8 years ago after marathon watching dog training shows. What struck me was that the people needed more training that the dogs. Anxious people, anxious dogs. Inactive people, hyper-active dogs. I watched the owner's discomfort when told they'd need to assert ‮…

Susanna Fournier - Thought #2 - Practicing Risk

Like many people, most of my life I wanted to believe I was taking risks without having to experience any of the pretty horrifying emotions that come with actual risk. I was a full blown perfectionist til I was 29 and perfectionism doesn't allow for risk because it doesn't allow for failure. Like ‮…

Susanna Fournier - Thought #1 - The Key is Risk

There was a textile work on the ceiling of the drama room at my highschool that showed a group of people encircling the words "THE KEY IS RISK". I remember staring at that wanting to be really good at taking risks – especially if they were KEY -- but not really knowing what that meant or if I was.‮…

Susanna Fournier is Spending a Season in Hell with take rimbaud

About This Episode: Playwright, director, and theatre maker Susanna Fournier joins Phil Rickaby fresh from rehearsal to talk about take rimbaud, her ambitious new production at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre in association with the Howland Company. Inspired by Arthur Rimbaud's iconic prose poem A S‮…