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The Caffeine Story Caffeine’s mission: to mine the poetic tradition to explore social questions. With language-intense, idea-driven
performances, Caffeine explores the
role of the artist in society, and
the potential of art for social change
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—to reclaim theatre’s
roots as a public forum to unite community, to hone citizenry (as Anna Deavere Smith suggests, the continuation of the national dialogue). The
poetic tradition has laid the groundwork for us to become better through
conversation, and we believe poetry and performance go hand in hand. As
Robert Pinsky
writes in Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry:
“The social
world in poetry ... is neither told about nor presented: it is, precisely,
invoked: brought into being by the voice.”
