Unlike psychological theatre, which clearly expresses through language and situations, the characters’ superior truths, the 50s theatre changes the language and the situations from means of revealing the insight life of things into autonomous, independent objects. The exposed objects produce the life of characters. The avant-garde theatre, as essence of world and of playing, doesn’t […]
Can a $100 Laptop Save the World?
It was easy to spot the most popular kid at last week’s “Open Source Meets Business” conference in Nuremberg. Between presentations, in the halls, even at the lavish evening banquets, there he’d be, flitting around in a cherry fedora, showing off the coolest toy in town, if not the world. Jan Wildeboer is a Solution […]
Plum Brandy
Around the Bulgarian town of Pernik, there is a scheme where travellers can stay with villagers in their homes. This is an excellent idea, rather like a homestay, but from my experience I would advise anyone who uses this service to eat plenty of food before being entertained by some of those locals… In […]
Dawn Boat Ride on the Ganges
As the fiery ball of the sun began to rise over the eastern bank of the Ganges on our left-hand side, the lighted candles on banana leaves, offered in prayer to the gods, started to float past our boat. The oars lapped gently in the water as the high stepped bank, on our right hand […]
The Lighthouse
It rested softly in her hands, aged and frail. “Do you want to open it now?” asked Angela. Her brother shook his head and looked toward the black cockatoos brutally pruning the eucalypts by the creek. The land sloped down from the house, overgrown shrubs crowding around what had once been an expanse of lawn. […]
A Place to Belong
The Phoenix Theatre by day is a picture reminiscent of an after school daycare program. Inside the main auditorium kids are skateboarding on the multitude of wooden ramps set up against the walls. The lobby is filled with youth hanging out, and searching their pockets for change to buy candy or soda from the concession […]