Monthly Archives: November 2010

A procession of cave-people enter.  We do the cave-people in a kind of Noh-style, with masks that project off of the performer’s face.  The actual performers are draped in furs and such.  If we were brave they’d be naked other … Continue reading →

Okay, so here’s where I think we’ve gotten, for anybody who might be joining us at this point: There’s a heap of interesting source material that’s been gathered, and probably more to come.  It’s certainly worthwhile to throw in seemingly … Continue reading →

Okay, so, as the ideas for the play develop, so too does the experiment in collaborative writing over the internet.  Anybody that’s got any thoughts on that, as well, fire ‘em in, because I think it’s working pretty well but … Continue reading →

Pardon this, please. Not my role. But maybe we should refer specifically within our contributions to what entry/subject/point we are referring to. Otherwise, I, at least, am getting lost. Textual context is getting disjunctive, and you can’t tell what somebody’s … Continue reading →

Can two seperate simultaneous plays occur at the same time, a la point counterpoint. We sorta know what and where and how we sorta became, so that play can be construed pretty easily,, the mirror play the “What if” play … Continue reading →

So many ideas, yet so tricky to go in reverse, down that reductionist path.

We need a plot.

I’m finding it a bit difficult to navigate the site, like, to see where to answer something, or find something. The framework is over-running content or something. Comments are beautfully and powerfully overflowing the banks of posts. But I’m sure it’ll work … Continue reading →

There’s lots of photography and literature around on primitive tribes that seem relatively unchanged from time immemorial. An aspect of these peoples that seems pretty ubiquitous is complex ritual. Appearance seems always altered by tattoos, body modification, elaborate headdress, scarification, … Continue reading →

Summa ars (est) celare artem. Motto of the old The Arts Club in Montreal, whose members have included all the greatest names in the older history of Canadian art, including Group of Seven, et al. It is commonly translated in … Continue reading →

OK. This has sort of been done before. But not nearly to its full potential. I haven’t read Jean Auel’s books. But I imagine she did some of this. There’s some in Sarum: The Novel of England, by Edward Rutherfurd. … Continue reading →

MOV03842 its real, its alive, its a platypus…what a phrase….so compelling

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