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Line Reading Actors Kathy Weinstock (left), Kendra Hackett (right), and
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and not in costume. After the presentation, the audience is
asked for input.
"It gives the writer a chance to focus on the text, and find
out what draws the audience in and what pushes them back
out," Clopton says, adding that the spectators' responses are
a vital part of the play development process. "The quality of
the feedback from the audience is amazing," he says. "This is
a very rich community."
It is also a community rich in other art forms, of which
Clopton is very aware. This past year brought a collabo-
ration with Newburyport's Exit Dance Theatre that in-
cluded the Tannery's hallways as performance space, and
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