Photo from Wikimedia AT THE RISE Center stage: A young flower girl, wearing near-rags and an apron, selling tulips out of a brown wicker basket which she holds on her arm.From early day to nighttime, a change in scenery upstage takes her from: Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro to Moscow to Saint Petersburg to […]
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Image from Wikimedia TIME Present day delusional. PLACE In the Georgetown brownstone of Robert and Patricia Greene, and, notionally, in the final scene, Mersea Island, Essex, England. CHARACTERS SENATOR ROBERT (“Bud”) GREENE, 55, a U.S. Senator and former university mathematics professor. Senator Greene – 15 years on with a heart transplant – is now endowed
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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 beyond).
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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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