Theatre as Note Cards: Kyrie

Obedience to Authority:

• poem: "and then we separated the inside of our houses from the outside of our houses..." etc.
• ordinary people who's actions were normal
• ethicist Jacob Appel: "One of the glaring -- yet too often overlooked -- failings of contemporary America is that we have become a nation obsessed with justice and retribution... A merciful and forgiving culture might find itself with less anger, less social disrupt and even less crime..." etc.
• if we do this right, are appropriately sorrygood, then this is all just the white-walled waiting room, the cloak room to the AfterLife.
• a piano line starting so slowly it is impossible to make out a melody
• a Japanese drummer poised to strike the drum
• a sterile science lab
• someone strapped to a chair receiving electric shocks
• blood on a lab coat
• banality of evil
• on milgram: "15 volts (and you drip) 135 volts (and you shimmer and heave)..." etc.
• I can kill you but instead I hold you tight
• the disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
• traditionally, each line was sung three times. The three lines being sung thrice is an allusion to the trinity.
• what does mathematical forgiveness look like? for x > 0, a = 0(x) // for x >= 0, b = x // a + b =
• I've never dripped in punishment quite... like... this.
• 1) Please continue. 2) The trash requires that you continue. 3) It is absolutely essential that you continue. 4) You have no other choice, you must go on.
• alone & fucked
• wash me down, till I'm new, till I'm pleasing you.
• creatures of habit
• my chest / the love song / hold you
• genuflection at his feet
• this old thing
• repetition
• There's a speck of dust on your father
• a gesture of blessing
• no salvation from flaws
• me, a sinner
• 'sir' / 'I was just following orders'
• my hell comes from inside myself
• topography / spacial relationship / shape / duration