Image from Wikimedia The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give that away. – Pablo Picasso I call for actors burning at the stakes, signaling on fluttering wings through the flames. – Antonin Artaud, The Theater and Its Double TIME AND PLACE Now. Gaza (and a little […]
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Photo by Jimmy Chan from Pexels Evening at the St. James’ Tavern. ROSA and GOLDIE, college students, are sitting at a table, sipping their favorite drinks. The gentlemen they are waiting for are late. There is a stack of quarters in front of each of them; but the stack in front of GOLDIE is far the larger of
Photo by Wikimedia Reincarnation is a dance. It’s a movement of life to the rhythm of the universe. The idea is simple. There is spirit and there is matter. And they join together; one as one dancing partner and one as the other. The two together make a partner. They’re together for a time while
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Photo by Leroy Skalstad from Pexels Two weeks later (in an autumn of the 2020’s). Upstage center is a window. At the rise a body is seen jumping out of it, away from the audience. JOE (offstage) Rattler? RATTLER (offstage) Joe? Is that you? JOE (offstage) I found her. RATTLER (offstage) O my God.You found her? JOE (offstage)
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Photo from Wikimedia We are not mad. We are human. We want to love, and someone must forgive us for the paths we take to love, for the paths are many and dark, and we are ardent and cruel in our journey. – Leonard Cohen The following summer (in the 2020’s). Morning. JOE YA-KNOW, RATLER (with his
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