Third Ear Theater Co. develops and presents the work of Jerry Lieblich.  With imagination and wit, curiosity and compassion, our work plays in the relationship between language and consciousness — speaking differently, we seek to make a space for different thought.

Artist Statement

I write on the borders of poetry, theater, and music.  My practice is one of inquiry and devotion.

I write to think differently. Breaking language and working in peculiar forms can be ways of shaping thought.  I’m interested in what language can do in a theater that it doesn’t do in ordinary life.

No matter what, the play cooperates with your mind. Attending to a play might reveal something in your mind, maybe something you hadn’t noticed before. It might change your thinking, too.

I like it when a play changes the texture of my thinking. There’s possibility in it — political and otherwise.

A play’s meaning might be this effect on attention’s texture; how, and what, it attunes one to.  This is true for writing, reading, and/or watching a play.

I like it when a play excites my imagination — waking experience starts to meld with dream.

Think about how time works in dreams. Sometimes play can do that too. Was that two minutes, or two hours?

I like it when, after seeing a play in a group, everyone has something different to say, and everyone’s right.  The more divergent, the more interesting.

I like that consciousnesses are different from one another. A play can sometimes help me see those differences more clearly, help me fall in love a bit with my particular partial view of life, allow me to enjoy hearing about what I hadn’t noticed.

Sometimes, in the woods, an animal can be standing right in front of you, but your friend is the one who can spot it.