WELLMAN

The Mac Daddy, as the rappers say. Mack, the Knife. The knife that MACbeth sees hovering in the air. The real reason for that Astor Place riot circa 1850 in NYC was not the ostensible British vs. American thing, but that Edwin Forrest, the American actor playing MAC, actually, literally, made that knife appear for a Bowery Boys audience. In other words, Shakespeare was a better actor than he was a playwright. (We usually try to keep our great actors in theatre with a shitlong list of pretensions. Instead. Seduce them with the truth. Prospero is Shakespeare the actor, not Shakespeare the playwright. From STAGE you can create a mass hallucination that film even in all its hyperbole can only imitate. In this Bucket Brigade, it's true that there needs to be a WELLMAN , but we're all facing the fire. We like the word Playwright only because we like the word Wheelwright. (We're all trying to reinvent it; i.e., we wright it as we go along. Nuyorican Poets Cafe gives the model. The Slam. The Word becomes Flesh over and over again. The Actor/Act on STAGE , the well is bottomless as man is topless. Become both WORDS, THE SPEAKER and DEEDS, THE DOER . No more playwright-in-residence. Send them back to the Indians. IOWA or WINNEBAGO put the Word as Flesh in one of those silver AIRSTREAM trailers. Try to keep it moving at the speed of light.