DRAMATIS PERSONAE (Scripts & Staging of to be & not to be) (poem) by Alexandra* OneLight*® Authors & Creations on AuthorsDen

DRAMATIS PERSONAE (Scripts & Staging of to be & not to be)
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This time I dare bringing you something rather unusual. There’s no saying into what specific genre this fits, if any, but it combines poetry and poetic prose, and is centred on the theme of dramatic characters (dramatis personae, in Latin) and the eternal dualism person/performer. This is why I placed it under the Play/Screenplay category, although, and as you will sense, the whole work also relates clearly to the creative process of writing and the empathy, sometimes also the dualism, between fellow writers and writers/readers. But the truly unusual aspect of this work is that it is a collaborative creation in three parts, which will take you, dear friends and readers, from this page to another one, and then will bring you back here. I hope you may find this reading experience - somewhat of a challenge - exciting!

-- A collaboration of Alexandra & Otsana* (1) - parts I and III (THE SCRIPTS) SCRIPT I Who am I, continuously stepping over the line of being and continuously seeking the serenity of being without a line, who am I, not knowing how to be without continuously replicating the steps of departure and continuing upon this continuous longing to arrive where I have arrived already - after all? To read Script II please click here, and then come back to read… (THE STAGING) The dramatist undresses the sweaty skin of the drama written; meanwhile, from the proscenium, the performer wails, through the dress rehearsal of the pages, and so perfect is the drama that, suddenly, it undresses the staged persona, leaving only a hollow, crumpled form on that spot of yellowish light, between the “prompter” and the “footlights”, where the stage floorboards creak and dust rises, like from a dry trail along which time burned. It was a good job. Tomorrow, somebody will swallow all this, in avid cadence, as if it were all true ; and somewhere, where reality is simply what it complexly is, unrehearsed, some will go on simply living the complexity of dramas unwritten more often than not. And in the interim… it may just so happen that there won’t be a “première”, after all – someone simple, who didn’t know (or knew only of cleanings), threw the written skin into the waste basket and swept, along with the dust, the empty performer off the stage. © 2007 Alexandra* ~ OneLight® - (image © Wieslaw Walkuski) (1) -* Otsana is one of several literary characters created by Alexandra* ~ OneLight®. Discover her profile in the introduction to her first piece of literary fiction here, in AD – “Acute & Chronic(les) by Otsana I – Le Dernier Cri” - in Alexandra’s “Short Stories”. Both the character Otsana and her literary works are © by Alexandra* ~ OneLight*® - All rights reserved

Reviewed by Joseph* OneLight*® (Reader)

Reviewed on August 21, 2007

Alexandra, Meu Amor,

This "conversation" between you and Otsana is uniquely creative and quite profound. It begins with the simple question "Who am I". A question which has multiple answers, none of which we can be completely satisfied with while we are growing and evolving. That is precisely why the question remains a valid one to ask of one's self on a daily basis.

Otsana seems to arrive at a good starting point in her words “We are voyagers upon the limits of the sky." That says to me that "Who I am" is a being that has limitless potential. It dares one to pursue their course in life with enthusiasm, like a child who is always anxious to learn new things.

And, in the end, if we are nothing more than an empty performer swept from the stage, then we will have the satisfaction of knowing that we have played our parts well and to the full. Let us not be afraid to empty ourselves!

Beijinhos,
Joseph

Reviewed by Amor Sabor

Reviewed on August 17, 2007

This is a very intricate write, Alexandra. Beautifully done
Peace and Light
Amor

Reviewed by Karla Dorman, The StormSpinner

Reviewed on August 16, 2007

Absolutely stunning composition, Alexandra; multi-levelled, complex, powerful. Well done.

(((HUGS))) and love, Karla.

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg

I could not elucidate better than dear Georg has. Unique and fulfilling dear Alexandra. Blessings and love from SoCal ...
Richard

Reviewed by Georg Mateos

From the old wooden and cavernous London Theatre of the Bard, with the absurd caricatures of powerful men and ugly women full of vanity,
the stage was open to the hollow man phantasmagorical illuminated by the weak footlights, and the thou, Alexandra face the plebe saying like Hamlet ghost "...I am not me and I am not you...who I am? as a bat from the London Towers flies though and gives you a mask made with a fleeing shadow.
Brilliant.
Georg

Reviewed by Felix Perry

Reviewed on August 15, 2007

this is truly a work of art that defies the conventional, as you escourt us from scene to scene building your lines to the conclusion we are swept up in the magic of the stage. We become the extras, the costume designers, the make up artists etc who depend on the stars to be a sucess so they too suceed...but when you fail...

Fee

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge Poetess Of The Heart

Dear Alexandra how easily I can relate!