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Managing Editor:
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Finntan Storer
Wednesday, September 19, 2018 // The Statement
Visual Statement: Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre
BY EMMA RICHTER, SENIOR PHOTO EDITOR
As I was photograph-
ing Pulitzer Prize winner
Viet Thanh Nguyen at
the Helen Zell Writ-
ers’ Program event last
week, I began exploring
the Lydia Mendelssohn
Theatre. I got to climb
up to different platforms,
peek out from the cur-
tains and roam the back-
stage — and I discovered
the strange juxtaposi-
tion of the beautiful
and the industrial that
exists in this old theater
tucked into the Michigan
League. The audience
only sees one perspec-
tive of the stage and the-
ater, so I tried to capture
several perspectives of
the space.