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No Encore: Notes on a Dying Stage

No Encore: Notes on a Dying Stage

This whole intelligent design hustle, this super natural con job, it’s the kind of beautiful lie that only works if you never actually open your eyes and look at what’s sitting right in front of you. These witches want you to believe that some all powerful, all knowing force had infinite time and infinite juice […]

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The Choreography of Desperate Hope

I’m full of shit, we’re all full of shit, every last one of us. And that’s not cynicism, that’s the most liberating truth you’ll ever swallow. We perform every goddamn day. For our lovers, our bosses, ourselves in the mirror at 3 AM when the pills have worn off and we’re wondering who the hell […]

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The Choreography of Desperate Hope
Circles Under the Bridge

Circles Under the Bridge

There’s something that happens when people form a circle. Something primal. Something we’ve been doing since we figured out fire wasn’t just for warmth but for gathering around. The circle says: we’re in this together. No hierarchy. No front or back. Just us, acknowledging the shared madness of being human. And rituals? Rituals are the […]

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September 2, 2013 · Collusion

Between Ava and the Serpent

Between Ava and the Serpent

O, never Shall sun that morrow see! Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t. He that’s coming Must be provided for: […]

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A Love Letter From the Other Side of Everything

A Love Letter From the Other Side of Everything

To Won’s Father June 1, 1586 You always said, β€œDear, let’s live together until our hair turns gray and die on the same day.” How could you pass away without me? Who should I and our little boy listen to and how should we live? How could you go ahead of me? How did you […]

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Honest Light: Shooting Macbeth at Fort Point

Honest Light: Shooting Macbeth at Fort Point

I stand there in the damp brick corridors of Fort Point with a camera and Shakespeare’s murder ballad echoing off Civil War-era walls, and I start to understand something about why I do this stupid, beautiful thing called documentation. Not because theater needs more goddamn photos. But because Ava and her company decided to stage […]

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underneath the bridge

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder Look at this thing. Just look at it. Fort Point. 1861. Built to protect San Francisco Bay from Confederate ironclads that never came. Brick and mortar, cannon emplacements, the […]

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underneath the bridge
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