That Grotowski quote rings true tonight as I slog through yet another grant application. I love reading your thoughts as you experience life renewed in Paris. Miss you and Jairo!
Hi Jim, Loved reading your thoughts! We saw Han! this week at CATAC. We took friends and we were transported and changed. I was so tempted to take the Song workshop with Richards, but realized I can't really do everything I would like to do, AGAIN. Love to you and Jairo!
Beautifully wondered, Jim! I have spent nights in Paris theatres, and not speaking the language, sought only that so familiar connection as I let the experience wash over me.
But like you, I rarely fall in love as a spectator. Because love is an action. And too often, I leave the theatre feeling like a voyeur. I know too much about what is required to make it happen. I lack the freedom to see it with naïveté and feel it without the prejudice of the familiar. It’s like trying to reconnect with a former lover. There just too much history to start a new relationship - the past informs the present and contorts the future.
Yet, every once in a while, I am transformed. Which is why we continue to believe in the necessity and the powerful force that only live theatre can provide to the willing.
You have provided that over the years. I have been the recipient of your gifts. I have been blessed by your instinctual and intellectual understanding of what theatre is meant to be and give. You have fed the souls of so many.
Your sabbatical will feed yours now. And we will all be the better for it.
thanks for your musings and updates - Jairo, not sure if you remember me but I was in your classes at CWRU in 2001/2002 (emily klingensmith). i'm now back in school, getting an mfa playwriting at siu (southern illinois university) - i enjoy these reviews and keeping engaged. cheers - e.k.
Wow, I don’t remember. I may have the program somewhere still. If I find out I’ll definitely let you know.
That Grotowski quote rings true tonight as I slog through yet another grant application. I love reading your thoughts as you experience life renewed in Paris. Miss you and Jairo!
Hi Jim, great read! I remember stage managing Tartuffe at U of Akron. Quite an experience!
Hi Jim, Loved reading your thoughts! We saw Han! this week at CATAC. We took friends and we were transported and changed. I was so tempted to take the Song workshop with Richards, but realized I can't really do everything I would like to do, AGAIN. Love to you and Jairo!
Beautifully wondered, Jim! I have spent nights in Paris theatres, and not speaking the language, sought only that so familiar connection as I let the experience wash over me.
But like you, I rarely fall in love as a spectator. Because love is an action. And too often, I leave the theatre feeling like a voyeur. I know too much about what is required to make it happen. I lack the freedom to see it with naïveté and feel it without the prejudice of the familiar. It’s like trying to reconnect with a former lover. There just too much history to start a new relationship - the past informs the present and contorts the future.
Yet, every once in a while, I am transformed. Which is why we continue to believe in the necessity and the powerful force that only live theatre can provide to the willing.
You have provided that over the years. I have been the recipient of your gifts. I have been blessed by your instinctual and intellectual understanding of what theatre is meant to be and give. You have fed the souls of so many.
Your sabbatical will feed yours now. And we will all be the better for it.
I love your writing about your journey! I hope to read your memoir someday!
thanks for your musings and updates - Jairo, not sure if you remember me but I was in your classes at CWRU in 2001/2002 (emily klingensmith). i'm now back in school, getting an mfa playwriting at siu (southern illinois university) - i enjoy these reviews and keeping engaged. cheers - e.k.