Re: RAT BLOOMSDAY 1999

[Bobby Mrozek <bby@earthlink.net>]

Delle Arte is good stuff.  You will learn alot.

As this Bloomsday thing is winding down, perhaps I should reveal some of 
my motivations herein:

Ultimately, the diff between here (east) and there (west) isn't the 
point. There are differences, to be sure, but to qualify the differences 
is only a way to understanding ourselves. 

I was only trying to make you all think about one single day and to tell 
me how you see yourselves in terms of a finite time (June 16th) and 
place (wherever you are... LA, Baltimore, etc.). 

...Because, when I'm in discussion with artists who are anxious to play 
at my theatre, Theatre Project (Baltimore, America) I'm wanting to know, 
in their own words, what their relationship (their art) is to here and 
now. And, if they can't convince me, then, they'll never convince my 
patrons of anything.

The point of observing Bloomsday can't possibly be about one single book 
(how boring), but rather how it feels about that book or any book, 
movie, play, painting etc. and to work hard and to play hard, and to 
hold both the past and the possibility of the future in mind, and to 
include ourselves in the story.