PaperMoon
productions present
Musical Boxes
an evening of three short plays by Samuel
Kastin at the Rosemary Branch Theatre May 31st, June 1st and 2nd
BLANCHE.
Where's my heart!?
STELLA.
She means her jewellery box. It's heart shaped.
A Streetcar Named Desire
There is a word in a dying language, shachlitz. There is
no equivalent word in English but the concept it denotes is a useful one. A friend of mine, one of the last speakers of this language, part of the generation that will take it to their respective graves, once translated it to me by describing its meaning; he said it means one box of
meaning opening up to a deeper box of meaning. He said, "Picture in your head a square
getting smaller and smaller as a circle inside it gets bigger and bigger and
bigger. Now imagine opening one box only for there to be another box inside it identical in every way except for its diminished size. You carry on doing this
to a point of almost ad infinitum until you get to a box so minuscule
that you can barely open it but when you do you reveal a huge mountain inside
of it. This is how I imagine the mountain found its way to Mohammed." Ladies and
Gentlemen these are our musical shachlitz, listen carefully, we are clicking
open their brass clasp, the gears in the musical machine are beginning to whir,
the dancer is starting her spin…
Down The Line
Trapped
in a life of procrastination Kydd longs to break out. Will he be able to get
his act together before the curtain falls.
Directed
by John M. Wilson
The
White Crow
They
say that every crow is capable of hitting the notes and sustaining the
harmonies required for birdsong, but that they choose not to sing. They say
that birdsong is not in their nature. However, once there was a crow that sang.
A
dance piece choreographed and directed by Stephen Pelton
Yesterday
Half A Century Ago
The
story of The Little Drummer Boy and The Little Matchstick Girl told in the
still of an evening approaching the end of the day when all that there is left
are memories.
Directed
by Samuel Kastin
book tickets here
http://www.rosemarybranch.com/index.php/programme/87-musical-boxes
