Class Notes 3/10

The lines we are memorizing.....Filming at The Baxter on Willson and Main, upstiars from Ted's and The Bacchus, April 6, Tuesday, 6pm - 9pm. Wear black. If so inspired, make a mask.....artistic, not cheesy.


look up Matrix in the dictionary, womb, where babies form, ground mass where fossils form.

Doug shared the birth story of his daughter

No matter how calm the entrance into the world, first breath (that has never been breathed before) shakes the little body. it is traumatic.


Dr. Sexson - "Haven't you ever been in a dark alley in Missoula? They're all birth trauma."


remember before we are born


Memory Theatre


Miranda crying now to make up for not remembering crying when she was 3


Aladdin....final words of genie.....mythology....


What is the Matrix?

Most used and repeated word in The Tempest, "Now"

"that which are living can only die...."
Prospero is the Director, everything has to be ritualisticly perfect
Prospero has designed everything...after marooning people, has to change their lives in 3 hours. Also has to marry off his daughter. Calaban paired with Prospero from the very beginning.
- Political mariiage, Miranda to Ferdinand
- set Ariel free

*Prospero is not just one thing, doing an enormous amount of symbolic work.

Now in 20th century we see Prospero in a negative light, white plantation owner, opressive, Calaban played as African American, Prospero portrayed as the asshole of assholes, teaches Calaban new language...HOWEVER this interpretation is incomplete. Prospero is niether one thing or the other, he his the benign magician, the dark magician, kind, oppressive, a liminal figure. (a trickster figure, to teach us something about ourselves?)

Shakespeare aware of tarot cards, alchemy, psychic technology

*an uncurtaining in the Tempest.....removes the curtain to reveal man and woman playing chess....Miranda and Ferdinand....
extrodinary, expose the machinery, people brought into the magical cirlce....forgives everyone......