Wrestling with a tape recorder What joy in approaching a Krappy New Year?? I first performed the role of Krapp in Samuel Becketts Krapp’s Last Tape in April of 1994. Yes, that was some 15 years ago. I am about to perform the role again – but it wasn’t easy. Do you know how hard [...]
Archive for December, 2009
KRAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Posted: 30th December 2009 by cord in The ProjectsTags: Beckett, improvisation, theater, theatre
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Sno Angels We walked out into the crusted snow We fell backward into……..where? There was laughter …..this we know The shifting of arms and legs Breaking the crust of time Just for an instant…yes our own child played. And someone was blowing up an air plane And someone driving home And someone dying alone….somewhere And [...]
Interview with….WHO ELSE??
Posted: 24th December 2009 by cord in The ProjectsTags: Christmas, comedy, improvisation, Santa, video
A story of an interview with Santa It was I who transported Santa to the interview in La Crosse, Wisconsin. It was a cold – below zero night- as I pulled into a parking space with Santa. When what to my wondering eyes should appear but flashing police cruiser lights behind me so near. I [...]
Night and Day do you see grace by which we live night and day searching the other spent, rapt, flying seeking empty, full, yes, and no ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ ‘ and what is this thing presented here this body from whose and such that wants a touch of madness a sheer flight from system [...]
Old/New Manuscript
Posted: 15th December 2009 by cord in Book Berry RoadTags: black widow, horror, manuscript, mystery, writing
A Manuscript Revisited White Spot on Black Time It was over ten years ago that I began the mystery/horror story – White Spot on Black Time I stopped working on it when I got to a point of misty muddle – I could not longer see it or work on it with any second, third [...]
Lights……….Unto Us
Posted: 10th December 2009 by cord in The ProjectsTags: Christmas, Handel, lights
A Light Display on the Mississippi River A view of the Rotary Light display at Riverside Park in La Crosse, Wisconsin – with a tickle of Handel in the background. In the middle of the piece you may hear a voice which sounds out of place. It is a comment by my dear friend and [...]