Between Complexities (Dense/Heavy/Solid): Exploring the Rift (Vestigial/Light/Fluid) between Two Self-organising Forms, Poem & Play: project description for creative and professional development, in part, in draft

What happens when the characters from this play drop the words that up to this point they’ve been speaking, when they forget the expressions and gestures they’ve been rehearsing, and leave the play behind altogether, to walk, like children in an enchanted wood, through the story of Semele,
Simon Taylor

Revisiting Chekhov, after 20 years’ neglect, with Michael Pennington, who is passionate about his subject, & talks of revisiting the playwright after his own period of neglect. Then, what’s a year to a grand passion? What’s a hundred? Seven hundred?

– Three Sisters at the Moscow Art Theatre Chekhov is also bringing from his journalism a sharp eye for the obsessive, for the ludicrous ease with which we ignore other people’s needs. This is a farce technique, but now used for something a farceur hardly aspires to: a hymn to
Simon Taylor