Simon Taylor
fr. Sweetheart, over____ (2006)
lines from the script for stage, Sweetheart, over____
two rivers
There are two rivers
One flows over the top of the other.
They run in opposite directions.
The first is measured by extent
Although it has depth
And although the second
Is measured by depth
It also has extent.
The
1976 - 1982 Anthony Taylor - Director, Raymond Boyce - Designer: productions, Downstage
Travesties, Downstage, 1977
East Lynne (double bill with Music Hall, Palace of Varieties), Downstage, 1977
Bingo, Downstage, 1978
The Merchant of Venice, Downstage, 1978
Heroes and Butterflies, Downstage, 1978
Candide, Downstage, 1978
Summit Conference, Downstage, 1979
Prisoners of Mother England, Downstage, 1979
Deathtrap, Downstage, 1979
Big and Little, Downstage, 1981
the pieces of ... soap
being the pieces from which RJF working script was composed in 2007
(pieces—not poems as such, except inasmuch as such things are meant for performance, to be rendered in speech, to be spoken and embodied, too.)
saponification: first rendering
Rumours that they made
Humans into soap
Are no more
RJF Project - working script (2007)
Who in his right mind would talk about making soap from human remains if he didn’t do it, in a memoir he never expected to be read?
The attack on memory always bothers me. You can’t discount memories of people.
– Ben Hirsch
I think in abstract art perhaps
Semele I, II
the work on Semele was preparatory for a project submitted to and denied by CNZ for funding in 2009. It was called Love Project and comprised 4 interwoven stage-works at 4 different venues and in different styles. Go to the LP9 at the bottom of this post if you would
STUDY FOR A PASSION: a working script in II Acts for 2 Actors (2007)
it was cast, rehearsal rooms were booked, a read-through took place. The rain of ash was devised, the reference for the costumes was the cover of Tindersticks's second album and Margiela. It was to be performed at City Art Rooms, Auckland. The misunderstanding arose because "artists fund