It's extraordinary - as if perhaps narrated by Tony Hancock. This stream of
bickering and trivia and then all of a sudden illuminated by something like
this, ' Up until now everything you have seen has been simple and
straightforward. But I can teach you the beauty of trickery, deviousness,
things that double back on themselves, things that are concealed, things that
are not quite as they seem', which is very beautiful indeed and the more so
for your dogged refusal to elevate, to please us, with what surrounds it.
Illuminated, too, by the darkness we know to be at the heart of the story ( and
I'm not sure one could come to your version without a reasonable degree of
familiarity with the original...) hovering just out of reach, just suggested in
the helpless puzzlement of the couple ( as if they are skipping without a care
at the edge of a hidden precipice)Michael
From: Edward Picot via NetBehaviour <[email protected]>
To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity
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Cc: Edward Picot <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 1, 2018 7:01 PM
Subject: [NetBehaviour] The Doubters' Mysteries: Adam and Eve
Dear all,
'The Doubter's Mysteries' are an attempt to write a short cycle of
Mystery Plays - ie. plays based on Bible stories, like the Medieval
Mystery Plays of York, Chester and Wakefield - from the point of view of
a sceptical modern audience; an audience which either doesn't believe in
God, or can't work out what he's playing at.
There are fourteen of these plays, and the second is now online: 'Adam
and Eve'.
http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries/02 adam and eve.html (or for the full
series so far, visit http://edwardpicot.com/mysteries)
- Edward Picot
http://edwardpicot.com - personal website
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