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🗓️ 27 November 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, guest host Zak Rosen from The Best Advice Show and Slate’s Mom and Dad Are Fighting podcast talks to Liza Bielby and Richard Newman of the Detroit-based theater company The Hinterlands. They talk about how The Hinterlands’ latest production, Will You Miss Me? came into being, their influences, their rehearsal process, and the importance of deadlines. After the interview, Zak and co-host June Thomas chat about collaboration, how to kill your darlings, and how Zak implements Julia Cameron’s concept of the “artist’s date.” In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, Liza and Richard offer their perspective on the migration of coastal creatives to Detroit in the last decade or so. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to working@slate.com or give us a call at (304) 933-9675. Podcast production by Zak Rosen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.0	If a collaborative of any kind is going to work and stay together, it means that everyone has to change and be changing always.
1:02.0	And I think that's the thing that felt really valuable in this beginning phase is that we were both willing to change somehow.
1:12.0	Welcome back to working. I'm your host, June Thomas.
1:15.0	And I'm your guest host, Zach Rosen.
1:18.0	Zach is so nice to see you again.
1:20.0	Listeners might know you as cohost of Slate's mom and dad are fighting or from your other show, which we've featured on working before.
1:28.0	It's called The Best Advice Show and it really is.
1:31.0	Thank you so much for having me. It's really fun to be here as cohost today.
1:37.0	Well, before we go any further, I need to know whose voice we heard at the top of the show.
1:42.0	That is Richard Newman, co-director of The Hinterlands, a Detroit-based theater company doing honestly some of the most enthralling and challenging theater I have ever seen in my life.
1:55.0	Wow, I don't know their work. So tell me, why did you want to talk to The Hinterlands?
2:00.0	Well, recently they did a six-show run in Detroit of a new production that created called Will You Miss Me.
2:08.0	I took my cell phone and artistate to see it and I was walloped, June.
2:15.0	My wife makes fun of me for always coming home from movies or plays and saying, oh my god, this was...
2:22.0	Seriously, this one was the greatest thing I've ever seen and I've said it like a hundred times.
2:26.0	But this show really is one of the greatest things I've ever seen. Even though now you know that you can't trust me from my history, but it's true.
2:35.0	Man, it's just incredible. So what was so good about it?
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