a hundred jars of sky

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I do not believe all men are destroyed. I can name you a dozen who were not, and they are the ones the world lives by. It is true of the spirit as it is true of battles- only the winners are remembered. Surely most men are destroyed, but there are others who like pillars of fire guide frightened men through the darkness. -John Steinbeck

Even if we are doomed to years of violence and animosity, to fragile peace agreements that will be violated over and over again, we must keep creating an alternative… If we don’t do this, our children will remember only dimly what is really worth fighting for. -David Grossman

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“ The act of writing for theatre is always a subtraction. This is a central paradox. The text is added in an effort to subtract. The actor must speak the text in a process of absenting himself. The text, the dialogue, must subtract those layers of identification with petrified shell of bourgeois identity. The actor speaking lines has to allow the speech to stay alive by staying ahead of himself, by sustaining that active margin of space linked to the dream. The actor has to forget his own dream life as he remembers the playwright’s forgetting. Everything in the theatre is in the process of self-dissolution. Writing always adds meanings, but they must at the same time be torn away. ”