Theatre is...

First up is a song I really love, thought I'd share it with you guys:

http://www.sendspace.com/file/e7knsa

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Some Excerpts from Boal's "Rainbow of Desire":

"Theatre is the first human invention and also the invention which paves the way for all other inventions and discoveries. Theatre is born when the human being discovers that it can observe itself; when it discovers that, in this act of seeing, it can see itself, see itself in situ: see itself seeing."

"Theatre is the passionate combat of two human beings on a platform."

"The great general themes are inscribed in the small personal themes and incidents. When we talk about a strictly individual case, we are also talking about the generality of similar cases and we are talking about the society in which this particular case can occur."

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An excerpt from "The Empty Can", a short story by Hayashi Kyoko. I am really interested in Atomic Bomb literature, and texts, and I have a ton more from Delicious Movements last year. (Something about the transformative effects of that experience interest me greatly, but also I'm interested in the things that were lost in that moment: lives, bodies, words, ideas, emotions, etc.)

After paying our respects at the grave, we sat down by the roots of the oak tree on the grounds of K temple, overlooking the city, and talked about our memories of Miss T. Kinuko had been there when Miss T died. She hadn't actuall identified the body, but she had witnessed the moment when Miss T, struck in the forehead by the blinding flash, had melted into the light and disappeared. Just at that instant, Miss T had opened her mouth wide, and yelled something to Kinuko. Of course she hadn't been able to hear the words. It might simply have been a scream, but Kinuko had never stopped thinking that somehow she wanted to understand Miss T's last words.