Showing posts with label The World Only Spins Forward. Show all posts
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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Proceed From Joy


"Be splendid tonight, be focused, have fun, make theater: That's our way of repudiating the bullies, the killjoys, the busybodies and blowhards. We know the secret of making art, while they only know the minor secret of making mischief. We proceed from joy, they only have their misery." - from Tony Kushner to the staff of the Charlotte Rep, facing possible closure of their production of Angels in America in North Carolina (and as excerpted from The World Only Spins Forward: The Ascent Of Angels In America by Isaac Butler and Dan Kois

Cursive

  Last week I returned to doing my  morning pages , a practice I was committed to for years, and then abandoned, at least partially in the d...