Available light [theatre]

I am at the Humana Festival this week. But if you wanna read about that you gotta go here.

Good Festival so far. Looking forward to the SITI Co. tonight.

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First up is The Absurdity of Writing Poetry. It's a play about making art and not making art and how that can all be pretty challenging sometimes.

It is the unoffical follow-up to The Pursuit of Happiness and A Lonely Crowd. It has a lot of poetry in it, a little bit of hip hop (believe it or not), and I'm hoping it will be fulfulling artists and non-artists alike.

How about an excerpt? Let's see what I can pull-out for you.

It begins as a lump in the throat - like a homesickness. You go to a far, secluded place, mentally, ideally physically as well. Or you go to a coffee shop, to be surrounded by activity. You put on the familiar trapping - pajamas. For me, a black t-shirt, beaten-up pants and one of two button down shirts, which are exactly alike in every way except their color. Many people think these are the only clothes I own. The point is, to find a space and make a home for yourself and your work.

That done, you can begin, as always, with the same question, "Where to begin?" The answer, as always, "Start as you mean to go on." Well, of course.

Thus, in the name of:
bogart, picasso, HURSTON, kandinsky, LENNON, KHALO, warhol, WHITMAN, hemmingway, dylan, neruda, stein, BALDWIN, GINSBERG, eisenstein, parker, gillespie, fitzgerald, armstrong, HOLIDAY, DAVIS, COLTRANE, mingus, monk, JOPLIN, beckett, havel, elliot, kerouac, ferlinghetti, motherswell, styll, olivier, brando, dean, SHAKESPEARE, rushdie, keats, rakim, kweli, def, RACHMNINOV, ELLINGTON, GAYE, HENDRIX, PLATH, RUMI, FELLINI, truffaut, goddard, LA ROCK, MARLEY, SHAKUR, brook, lepage, joyce, kushner, kertesz, oe, coatzee, mossman, mcewan, foster wallace, barth, eco, crane, sandburg, rich, reed, cale, byrne, eno, ramone, strummer, mitchell, micheline, lerner, levy, baraka, pollock, waits, mailer, marquez, cassady, burroughs, gaines, estep, scott-heron, bruce, hicks, pryor, pinero, cohen, nabokov, evans, ellison, sim, mucha, cobain, kuti, copeland, bernstein, cage, gould, mahler, elling, sondheim, redding, simone, vaughn, cooke, wonder, charles, jagger, richards, kundera,woolf, rauschenberg, monet, manet, seurat, growtowski, boal, graham, balanchine, robbins, de mille, meisner, ailey, cunningham, oida, foreman, chaykin, winterson, cervantes, murakami, ishiguro, kurosawa, gilliam, herzog, foreman, bergman, bunuel, almodovaR, kobayashi, fugard, sontag, carver, pessoa, conroy, faulkner, woolf, plath, blake, rimbaud, proust, twain, bangs, Symborska, kafka, donne, blake, wordsworth, shelley, dickenson, yeats, marlowe, kafka, and pound

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We're up and running, eh? Excellent.

This is the blog part of the Available light [theatre] site. One of my goals is to open up the figurative doors of the theatre to the audience/community, to allow for greater participation in all aspects of the process. Hopefully, someone will get something valuable and/or useful out of this. If nothing else, maybe we can build some solidarity.

At any rate. There's more work to be done around here. Stay tuned.