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At Turaif and Al Muruj المروج وَ الطُّرَيْف: further explanations

At Turaif and Al Muruj المروج وَ الطُّرَيْف: further explanations

. . . it was Ethiopian, came in a small block of stone, cost noncompetitively @NZD5, but that was not all: this café, called Passion with a symbol for wheat, advertised itself as a bakery, we were hungry for breakfast bread (it might even have been the day I arrived, since I got
Simon Taylor 13 Oct 2025
explaining my circumstance

explaining my circumstance

. . .the King Abdullah Financial District, where the above is shot, with the collection of signature architectures, and before that the neighbourhood where I am at present, and before that Doha, the rain forest, and if you look there appears to be a bright-winged bird. . . then we did a tour
Simon Taylor 12 Oct 2025
Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

Minus workshop 9: speech as movement | language as perception

as I wrote in Minus Theatre workshop 8 this is to be a short report. Schematic even. Drawn from notes I have brought with me to Riyadh. * movement for primitive organisms, cilia and flagella, rolling, swimming— —is perception: single-celled organisms move in the outside world with the same parts
Simon Taylor 05 Oct 2025
Minus workshop 8, part 1: speaking, dialogue or not, sarx, pneuma and psyche; & part 2, the elizabethan play

Minus workshop 8, part 1: speaking, dialogue or not, sarx, pneuma and psyche; & part 2, the elizabethan play

* dialogue progresses the action. At least in conventional theatre it does; and I am starting with dialogue because dialogue usually covers speaking, where there is more than one of them, roles in theatre. * there are two types of action: conscious and unconscious. It would be a mistake to consider the
Simon Taylor 05 Oct 2025
Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

Minus workshop 7, part 2: gesture, with some notes on the transindividual, sarx, pneuma & logos

Ricky, Nick, Chen, Chenby, Mike, Alex, Rachel, through Ricky's recommendation, Ann, Kwan and Yuka from about 4.30: I talked too much but explained the notion of gesture, its double constraint, the one I impose by asking you to put the actor's gesture who leads the
Simon Taylor 20 Sep 2025
a short note in appreciation of Jess Walter

a short note in appreciation of Jess Walter

Finding myself writing about character in the journal I'm keeping on Minus Theatre workshops, it is in respect of character, of the curve of character, that this short note is the asymptote. I read Jess Walter's novel So Far Gone, 2025, and requested the other three
Simon Taylor 18 Sep 2025

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