A change in the wind

We are living in a wonderful time! A time when change is popularly recognized as GOOD! Or at least accepted as necessary. May our theatre pounch upon this opportunity to invigorate audiences who are purchasing responsibility for breakfast. May we encourage the blossoming imaginations of the people through work that understands creativity, collaboration and compassion. Let us all work together, painters, dancers, writers, actors, musicians and all artists alike, to develop work that inspires audiences to pursue and open mind and open heart with courage and conviction.

My New Year’s Resolution

“Perhaps the sad and empty language that today’s flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.”
– Arthur Adamov

Longfellow ain’t no Wrongfellow

For when the heart goes before, like a lamp, and illumines the pathway, many things are made clear, that else like hidden in darkness.

Let me essay, O Muse! to follow the wanderer’s footsteps: — Not through each devious path, each changeful year of existence, But as a traveller follows a streamlet’s course through the valley: Far from its margins at times, and seeing the gleam of its water here and there, in some open space, and at intervals only; Then drawing nearer its banks, through sylvan glooms that conceal it, Though he behold it not, he can hear its continuous murmur; Happy, at length, if he find the spot where it reaches an outlet.

Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface is as the tossing buoy; that betrays where the anchor is hidden. Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Evangeline”