"We at Alive Theatre were deliberate in our season
selections for 2008, our inaugural year, knowing that
first impressions are important. With no permanent home of
our own, we decided to embrace our status as wandering
company and embark on an extraordinary journey throughout
the Long Beach community. We chose site-specific work,
plays nurtured by the spaces in which they happen. We saw
this as an important first step toward our goal of
stimulating change. Through highly physical, visually
appealing, raw and gripping theatre, disconnected from the
habits and comfort of a familiar home, we hoped to show
that we could work beside each other in harmony, not in
spite of our differences, but because of them. Long Beach
is a microcosm, the most diverse city out of the 65 most
populous cities in the nation. This is why we have chosen
to start here. To speak to the people, to bring them back
to the theatre, back to art on a human scale."