| Current Collaborations Original Work being developed beginning March 2010
in collaboration with actor Jean Pierre Makosso and writer/
facilitator Penny Allport. If Fish were a Place, Id be in Whales Written
by Valen Watson
A play for two women In its second draft writing
phase - Quote from Valen introducing the play we sometimes refer to as
FISH - What in life is fate and what is imagined and realized?
- When
two strangers meet for the first time in a city park, it is the beginning of a
journey into the possibilities of time and space realigned; of the power we have
in the choices we make; and the ways in which we shape our world.
- Quantum
Physics as the key to a life philosophy is elegantly optimistic and opens the
door to the heart of what we believe, what we see as reality, and how we define
who we are.
The process of work-shopping the play will begin in
the summer. A first round of rehearsals are scheduled for September/October 06.
Performance venues in Vancouver and other locations, TBA. Valen
Watson http://playwithmum.blogspot.com
Teresa This script is on-the-back-burner. Last year, Vancouver
writer Yvonne Young researched and explored our theme from many angles. Sixteenth
century mystic, Teresa of Avila, inspires our study. Teresa, a wildly eccentric
Carmelite, has been compared to Carl Jung with respect to the process of Individuation.
Individuation refers to the movement into the wholeness of ones personality,
as union with the Divine deepens. Teresa was a very articulate and wise
observer of human interiority. Reading about her exceptional, dramatic life has
given us material rich in possibilities. Reading her books and the biographical
literature available has also given us a degree of anguish, in terms of depth
and breadth of content. Teresa will be a play for a solo performer
blending the spoken word with expressive movement. | 
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