INTRODUCTIONS
This introduction is something of a problem. It
should be personal to some extent. But I have always seen the
world of the strictly personal as shallow, tending to break life
into little closed cells. I have therefore tried as far as
possible, to keep any conscious autobiographical element out of
my plays.
Nobody Here But Us Chickens--TV
Introduction (audio)
There are so many conditions which are
handicapping in the widest sense - being an Arab in Israel, a Jew
in Syria, being a woman, gay, black or poor anywhere. These
handicaps prevent people making the normal responses to their
surroundings, stifle their opportunities and create prejudices in
others. Yet we all make sure we suffer disabilities to some
degree or other...
It is all imagined: the Middle Ages, Waterloo,
1066. History is not history unless it is imagined. No one I know
ws present in the distant past, so the past, like the future, is
an act of imagination. The ghosts are all here and now and with
us always. We conjure them up, clothe them with historical facts
and call them Caesar and Alexnder and say they are real. But even
those of us who live in the past only live there in our
imaginations. It is not real - not even yesterday.
All I can do is tell stories and leave the big
ideas to priests and politicians who will steal the whites of
your eyes if you let them get close enough.
from Red Noses
introduction:
...Men and women can still be overcome by a
sudden wave of compassion for the poor and sick but they quickly
get over it, while the majority, it seems, find something deeply
offensive about any transaction in which money does not change
hands....
...RED NOSES is a letter from a transfigured
world, much like ours, where statues come to life and human
beings turn to stone....
I am, like the others, trying to define the
indefineable, fathom the unfathomable and screw the
inscrutable...
I wanted THE SPIRIT OF MAN to be about faith and
language. Only language irrigates an event with a value that
extends beyond the fact it merely exists; only language outlasts
the dying it describes.
Copyright Technofilm 1997