"Back then, there were subsidised theatre structures and the underbelly that was challenging people from a creative or political standpoint," he says.
The 18-strong group has since gone on to build a portfolio spanning everything from temporary theatre structures and artists' studio spaces to community housing strategies and new town squares – as well as staging a mysterious ritual happening at the Serpentine Pavilion last summer.
Purpose-built structures as venues for entertainment that accommodate audiences have produced many famous and innovative buildings, among the most recognisable of which are theatre structures.
In 1709, more than sixteen centuries after the eruption, workmen digging a well in the town of Resina hit the upper tier of Herculaneum's ancient theatre, a structure that once seated twenty-five hundred.
Although it looks like an abandoned theatre, the structure was once a sanatorium, a place where diseased children, in the 1900s, went to die.
Theatre's structures have even been called corrupting.
They surpass the technology that forms the foundation of their very being, transcending medium to exist somewhere else: as art, I suppose, expression every part as pertinent as what you'll find on a canvas, in a theatre, within the structure of a sentence that turns your lungs inside out with delight.
The funny thing was that because of the way this nonprofit theatre group was structured, because we were strongly encouraged to share personal stories and build relationships with one another based on trust, I felt for the first time that meeting new people could be authentic.
CNIS: Canadian Network for International Surgery DALYY: disability-adjusted life year; DCP: disease control priorities; DMO: District Medical Officer; MUHAS: Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences; OR: operation room (or OT: operating theatre); OSCE: Observed Structured Clinical Examination; UCSF University of Californiaa San Francisco.
In practice, accountability has been characterised as a 'political theatre' where institutional structures, power asymmetries and inter-organisational dynamics combine to ensure that "no single form of accountability dominates" [ 9].
