Plans once more are afoot for a festival that will incorporate more on the community and leave less of the work to herr director personally.
The winter has been spent so far brooding on whether it's worthwhile bringing performing arts if you're not not the best when it comes to organising it. Why not stick to what I do best and brood upon my books and write some more verse and more on those plays you'd like to see performed to secure your future as a playwright rather than non prophet organisation.
why not do both but know thy limits and seek not to go beyond the bounds?
I've spent some time in hibernation over the winter, not wishing to venture any further than was necessary. Not even to attend events I would have liked to if my mood were not so morose or melancholy.
Having steeped myself in the experience of loss though never in despair I find a veil has been lifted and I begin to rise again. I'm discussing with a friend the relationship between my life and the arts in which I'm engaged in. My attempts to transform my own need for therapy from the traumas of life that have befallen me into some sort of public performance. Much of my writing whether it be performed in public or becomes the private inner-narrative of my own performance deals with the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that I imagine befall most people in some form or other. I have not quite gone as far as Shakespeare's Hamlet though he is a ghostly companion whose spirit is ever present. But to grow to a point.
I don't believe I can really separate me into public and private performer. Nor do I believe that anyone whom I've read recently has done so when I know a little about their personal history. It is plain to see that they've transformed their personal lives into characters that have entertained me and kept me turning the pages to discover what happens to these lovers in the end.
My own romantic stories will be no different only I seek to emulate them in creating something that goes beyond ourselves and is worth sharing. Not art for art's sake, not experience for experience's sake but for the sake of a good story with an ending which heals the artist and the audience and in some way offers hope for us all.
