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Trees Growing In The Wind

The Wind.

The gale force wind blows for seven days and seven nights. It howls past the corners, it growls down the chimney, forcing age old trees even further along; further away from the approaching wind, further than the branches can and want to allow.

After day one of this frighting wind people are hopeful that the wind will not blow for long. After three days all hope has faded and is replaced with frustration and emerging evidence of feelings of desolation. After seven days they cannot believe that the wind can ferociously blow for so long. Conversations now, respectfully, focus on the wind.

From the conversations it’s clear……..

Every gush cuts deeper through the dried skin and flesh. The wind leaves a mark on exposed bone. As we count the days the bone gets cut even more, deeper and deeper. The wind is determined to create lasting memories. From a long time ago; we remember the exposure and loneliness associated with the wind. Again, the wind recalls our deep seated fear. The wind affects our emotional well being, it stretches our tolerance and our nerves become bow tight. We are ready to fire. We are ready to pack up and go. We want to react.

“It’s never going to stop!”

Aversion! What can we do to avert the wind? How can we avoid the wind?

We may not acknowledge it, but we resent the wind. We become passionate aversionists. And the more we try and avert the wind to more emotional power we give to the aversion efforts; the deeper and longer lasting we etch the pain onto our bones.

By trying to avert the wind we expose our vulnerability, our misery, and hopelessness. Unhappiness results.

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The Gale Force Of Life:

• Is it just possible that the wind is nothing other than a blow-torch blowing a gale of oxygen onto the fire of life?
• Is it just possible that the wind is our gift; quickening the road we choose to walk?

S.N. Goenka on The Root Of Unhappiness:

When something unwanted happens, we react with aversion towards such events. When something that we want is not happening, we react with craving for such events. Thus craving and aversion are at the root of our misery. In addition ignorance of these causes create even more misery.

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I am doing my show called The Performers Guide at the Intimate Theatre. This is the programme note just to give you a sense of what the show may be about, or at least describing what a Performers Travel Guide is.

A Performers Travel Guide is a name given to a shopkeeper, road-side seller, or travelling merchant that supplies the lost performer (these include: actors, dancers, jugglers, tight-rope walkers, balloon blowers, strippers, fire spitters, hip hoppers, fire dancers, screaming clowns…and the like) with a destination that will remedy their woes. For example, Drew Macdormat, the tap dancer who lost both of his legs trying to tap dance on actual taps, was sent to a secret cove off the coast of India where the dwellers of said secret cove found it the finest entertainment to watch someone tap dance on their knees.  

A Performers Travel Guide shop is often mobile, as a Performers Travel Guide must always be on the move as the lost and injured will not necessarily come to him, he must seek them out, in fact he hunts them out like a tracker. The shop is usually identified as a small caravan where the source of mobility is never seen. The Performers Travel Guide himself is never to be trusted: they are often dressed in shiny clothes, smart shoes, tall hats and fancy ties so as to attract their prey. Their cologne is also irresistible.

 Although they started off in the early 13th century as do-gooders, their intentions are now sinister. Lost actors are easy prey and a guide will get a huge bonus for every destination sold. (Of course they provide other services too, like: the purchasing of shows, purchasing of audience and hair dressing).

In fact at the turn of the 18th century the intention of a Performers Travel Guide was to get rid of actors, sending them to perilous destinations. It was once recorded that an opera singer was sent to an abandoned glass factory wherein she died a horrible death of raining glass. She kept singing though, her song was all she had.

And that is the basic idea of a Performers Travel Guide. Actors, dancers, clowns whoever you may be, take this as some consolidation; a guide has not been seen for years. The last guide, the most creatively sinister, Jacques Decroux, was slaughtered and buried with his maps many years ago…many….years.

Where: Intimate Theater Hiddingh Campus 37 Orange Steet

Date & Time: 7 -10 December @ 08:00 pm  

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