Co-Creation: 50 Years in the Making
In the course of their fifty years of marriage, Bishop & Fuller have collaborated as performers, playwrights, producers and puppeteers in bringing hundreds of stories to thousands of audiences. Now they tackle their own story— a chronicle of play-making, parenting, uprootings, successes and failures, polyamory, spiritual quests, strict accounting practices, dancing naked around bonfires, and perpetual improvisation.
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If you can find someone you can work with and love at the same time, you’ve truly got something magnificent. Co-Creation: Fifty Years in the Making is a profound memoir of Conrad Bishop & Elizabeth Fuller as they reflect on countless decades of cooperation as partners in the world of show business and the much more difficult task of partners in the game of life. Touching and memorable, Co-Creation is a fine assortment of wisdom, very much recommended. ~ Midwest Book Review
These two are among the most odd, fascinating humans I have ever met. They are actors, artists, composers, writers, puppeteers, parents, pagans, super-smart, sexy beasts with the collected wisdom of years refusing to live by the rules.
~ Joan Schirle, Founding Artistic Director, Dell’Arte International
You two have what most people want, a lasting love within a family unit where you break all the rules, make your own and co-create your art and lives together. ~ Betty Dodson, sex educator, author of Sex for One
Conrad and Elizabeth raise the bar of relationship possibilities – 50 years of co-creating amazing works, touching souls, moving mountains, and dancing outside the box while holding the box intact. These memoirs are a must-read for everyone who dares to enter the mystery of love. ~ Anodea Judith, author of Wheels of Life
Theirs is a story of passionate reinvention, revisioning, and renewal, told with insight, grace, wit and generosity. And an authentic chronicle of an American theatre truly “beyond the capitals.” ~ Philip Arnoult, Founder, Center for Intl. Theatre Development.
I know of no couple that have thought more deeply about relationships than Conrad and Elizabeth. They have explored this through their work which has touched so many lives, and had the courage to live the exploration. I’m fascinated by their amazing life together on and off stage. ~ Bill Siemering, creator of All Things Considered
From the beginning, they were burdened with burgeoning talent, fine intelligence, and newly discovered devotions – not only to theatre but to finding a way of life that would give meaning to living. Over five decades, it was thrilling to watch their pursuit of that devotion. Whether they’re exploring short radio drama about close-to-our-daily-lives problems, or Eastern mysticism, or religious parable, there’s the same integrity, the same honesty, the same intense determination to get to the core of its questions and of its relevance to ourselves. What they are and what they do are one. ~ Dr. Leon Katz, Emeritus Professor of Drama, Yale University