RE: RAT Re: like the who when they're good

["Megan Monaghan" <MeganM@pwcenter.org>]

The first quotation is from a Japanese Noh play.  I wasn't able to find the text online in a quick search, but the library at the Univ. of Delaware should have resources on Noh (since they've had a good Master's program in theater for the past 10 years or so).

The second is from one of the great Spanish mystical saints, St. John of the Cross.  (Unfortunately not a playwright.)  Today, his best-known written work is "Dark Night of the Soul."  

Good reading, either way.

Megan
Mpls.

>>> tshade@prodigy.net 02/07/01 09:59AM >>>

Hi -- I'm new to the list, and to RAT -- planning to attend in
Philadelphia this June.

These quotes -- are these plays? I dont know them. Where can
I find them to read?

Tom Shade
City Theater Company (Wilmington, Del.)
 
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>Date: 2/6/01 4:16:32 AM
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><getting>
>
>I'm late in the pool, but recent reading put me in mind of our
conversation
>on clarity. We get plays like we get high fevers - shows are
disordering but
>convincing contagions. Visions/images may arise out of bouts
of
>art-love-sickness, but first, we're in a state of being. Production
puts us
>at the ground of vision. Theater makes dreamers rather than
dreams; shows us
>little, makes us... something. In the interest of parity an
audience should
>wind up exactly where we ask our actors to be: present.
>
>(A play is validated not by what a writer comes up with, but
by what an
>audience comes down with.)
>
>A couple of quotes:
>
>
>MOTHER: So, you would begrudge me, as a madperson, the right
to strike the
>bell under the moon tonight? An old poem says -
>
>"Round, Round, it rises beyond the seaside peaks,
>Softly, softly, it fades into the hazy clouds."
>
>It's author lacked a final couplet just then, but later, facing
the bright
>moon, his mind cleared and he wrote -
>
>"This night, a full-circled orb:
>Is no spot unbathed by its clear radiance?"
>
>Having come up with these lines, his heart became disordered
with an excess
>of joy, and climbing the high tower, he rang the bell. When
he was rebuked
>by people who asked why he would do such a thing, he replied:
"This is
>poetic licence." - Miidera (noh play)
>
>and
>
>"Faith is an obscure and certain nighttime journey of the soul"
- John of
>the Cross. (Obscurity and certainty are necessary partners,
when faith is
>the guiding criterion.)
>
>
>Thanks to Nick for putting Philly together. Onward
>
>
>
>
>
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