ETERNAL TRUTH, c LLA o RAT I N, D DE51G T H PROC 55 THINI< IT IS CLEAR TO MOST DESIGNERS BY NOW THAT THE COLLABORATIVE/DESIGN PROCESS WE ARE NOW USING IN OUR THEATRE NEEDS EXAMINATION AND RE-DEFINITION. An awareness is growIng In our mosr garherings among rhe "rhearre collaborative process that we use. We profession rhar rhe process we are elire." Reasons such as bad play- are following a collaborarive process currenrly following doesn'r yield wrighring, markering comperirion, or rhar is our of dare. We inherired rhis resulrs rhar are sarisfYing ro us or rhar rhe pervasive relevision menraliry are process from anorher rime and place. are in rune wirh our sociery. Our all durifully croned our and paraded Ir was a valid process rhen. Ir is nor rhearre, we are now seeing, rarely in familiar formarions as reasons for valid now, and ir needs ro be conneces wirh irs audience and is "rhe decline of rhe rhearre In our changed. only of marginal inreresr ro rhe vasr rime." majoriry of Americans. Bur before a new process is Bur I would like ro suggesr a esrablished, rhe assumprions rhar are There are many reasons for rhe differenr idea. I would like ro suggesr rhe basis of our cUrlĀ·enr rheacre and marginal posirion of rhearre in rhar the IJIfligilia/ positioll oftheatre ill our C/f/ture is created by lIS. It is created by the /lIay !ue do theatre-by tile we inherired and so blindly follow American life. In face, recounring rhese reasons sounds like a manrra in rhe collaborarive/design process rhar need ro be examined. DELBERT UNRUH TD&T 1993 SPRING 9