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Works for me. I have
a friend visiting from my hometown (i.e., from the Wayback Machine) and she and
I frequently end up talking at cross purposes, with the main of her conversation
being one liners. "I really liked Titanic".--type of
conversation and at the risk of being mean, sat through many a moment
thinking--this is absurdist theatre. This is how Ionesco wrote The Bald
Soprano: People spewing nonsequitir one liners at one
another.
"Those poor
kids. So young. So nauseous."
--Krusty the Klown Telethon
for Motion Sickness
Well, geez. I like all
kinds of pity one-liners.
"Love is a battlefield"
--Pat
Benatar
"Hell is for children."
-- again, Pat
Benetar
"I think I ate a bug."
--Marlon
Brando
Perhaps we can take all these aphorisms and string
them
into a play. Sans an willful intent of course.
--- francis
<francis@eyelumination.com>
wrote:
> I still like Brecht:
>
> "Theater is a
Weapon"
>
> Francis
>
>
> >At 10:03
AM 8/4/00 -0400, P1d2o3b@aol.com
wrote:
> >In a message dated 8/4/00 8:57:37 AM Eastern
>
Daylight Time,
> >audiemccall@yahoo.com
writes:
> >
> >>> To assume that theatre must
"effect change" (a
> >>> seductive
assumption, admittedly, but
> nevertheless
> >>>
dubious) and then throw up one's hands and say
> it's "a
>
>>> crap shoot" what kind of change you're
>
effecting seems
> > >> disingenuous and
callous.
> >>>
> >
> >>also
stupic
> >
> >QUESTION #4 Is the above
"stupic" spelling due to
> callousness,
>
>disingenuousness, or stupidity?
> >
> >Theater for me
is an act of faith. A time and
> place of vulnerability,
not
> >willful intent.
> >
> >The moral
trepidation of Abraham carrying his only
> son Isaac up Mount
Moriah
> >for the sacrafice.
> >
> >see
Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling
> >
> >http://home.pacbell.net/newcov/sk/kw6a.htm
>
>
> >Keats spoke of mystery, doubt, uncertainty.
>
>
> >But Artaud probably spoke most precisely: "To
act
> is to kill."
>
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