"Table Work” is a forty by seventeen foot mural designed for the 2022-23 Arkansas Repertory Theatre season, representing images from Every Brilliant Thing, Guys & Dolls, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Little Shop of Horrors, and Clyde’s. Named for the process of script reading by actors around a table, “Table Work” denotes similarities in writing, drawing, and reading as critical creative forms. Comprising a loose grid or “list” of 75 stand-out images noted by the artist in his read-through of the plays, “Table Work” represents the entire season as well as the visual nature of story telling itself and the imagination required in theatre, particularly in minimal productions like the season’s opener, Every Brilliant Thing.
