our second phone meeting

ships on the radar/bugs on the windshield:

"minimize the impact' is not to say suppress pejoratively, but to sublimate, to seek alternate strategies, perhaps to inhabit the role of the oppressor

with reference to the heritage of the 60s: in this production we are not in a space and time where we can share mutual hope - this is not the Utopian vision of the flower child

rather, in 2018 we are in a Dark Age
where violence (real and virtual, physical, intellectual, emotional, biological, etc.) is not perpetrated with a well-defined notion of the potential outcome: where everything serves the short term satisfaction, whether to secure natural resources, spiritual fulfilment, or sexual satiation.

Gini referred me to Wag the Dog (2001) and an excellent Hollywood moment about the construction of media-meaning and it's manipulation

explore: asylum
explore: suberversive

when is the mentally-challenged state of mind an act of offense? an act of defense? (thinking about acting . . . )

DRUGS: prescription and recreational (but also 'proscribed'): atavan, zoloft, ritalin . . . how we are mediated and manifest the agenda driven by western medicine? pharmaceutical manufacturing and profit-mongering? government of the masses? all in 2018 . . .

police protect mcdonald's by elly sinclair . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . see Tish Stringer's paper The Revolution will be Televised

why/where/by whom is this play approved to be put on in the institution? and then what happens when it changes?

DO NOT FORGET the possibility of comedy and the comic moment!

and of course, this is all about zeroing in upon the meta-script of the play that we will put on stage in 2007, in that perhaps unfortunately very welcoming Sean O'Sullivan theatre: we are less interested in the particulars of the Weiss/Sade histories than we are the mechanics of change: how does the vacuum of power get filled - and what does it sound like? what is the nature of the theatrical immanence that is produced by this situation . . . ?

the stage is a safe space - but it keeps erupting
how is the safety maintained and for whom? electronic surveillance? electrical and mechanical fences?
where is the threshold of the safe space? the doors at the entrance from the lobby into the hall? from the hall into the lobby?

immanence
omniscience

the white-washed, paper-covered, or boarded up window: what is the strategic advantage?

a place in plain view, but that nobody knows about . . .

keep your eye on the upcoming G8 summit