Theatre as Note Cards: Agnus Dei

A Conspiracy of Us:

• To know the universe... look carefully at man...
• My grandmother survived the war barefoot, scavenging other people's inedibles: rotting potatoes, discarded scraps of meat, skins, and the bits that clung to bones
• overwhelming sense of community was too much for me... made me feel less connected
• give wine to those who are suffering
• all we have is each other and some time together. it's a conspiracy of us.
• breathing together
• communal reactions
• take audience out for milk and cookies after the show
• repetition
• remembering
• cooking meals
• music in 6/8
• no salvation from flaws (not equal to hopelessness)
• everybody row
• you are not special, we are all in it together
• no more to breathe, no more to grieve, coming home
• food is not food. it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love.
• this is your pain, take and eat. this is your want, take and drink.
• just over Jordan we all will rise / side by side
• chanting takes up time (I could do that all day)
• looking in eyes
• embrace / togetherness
• sacrificial "lamb"
• it takes time to find a communal rhythm
• everyone's afraid of their own life / remember to live before you die
• walking forward one at a time to face another
• embrace is exclusive
• ritual (of food together)
• spacial relationship / repetition / topography