Theatre as Note Cards: Sanctus

Ripples When You Stop:

• stand up, sit down, kneel...
• lighting a candle (solitude)
• taking a shower/bath (meditation)
• what else do I have to do today?
• making love in the darkness (silence)
• actors shifting as lights come on/off: it becomes less jagged, more rhythmic
• round and round and round and round and round and...
• life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds...
• you are not special
• passing the final cigarette before battle
• suicide
• as man breathes, so does the universe
• the priest kisses the book
• imagine what our thoughts can do to us
• about bodies, silence, water, loneliness, light
• there's a procession of doves in your rafters
• transubstantiation: an object is given meaning/becomes an idea
• mirroring
• loss/death
• vore
• when they will not come to be counted, I count the holes they leave
• self memorialization before death
• overwhelmed
• what happens when the heart just stops?
• sex
• time / silence
• action / reaction
• a piano line so slow you can't make out a melody
• a Japanese drummer poised to strike the drum
• om shanti shanti shanti / om mane padme hum 
• asatho maa sath gamaya / thamaso maa jyothir gamaya / mruthyor maa amrutham gamaya
• memememememememe me. a wish.
• sacrifice 
• my hell comes from inside myself. why fight this?
• watch someone fail
• on random emotion 
• no one's gonna play the harp when you die
• gesture / duration / repetition