Past Events
The Farewell Fables: Satellites, Songs and Cereal
I am very sorry Farwell Fables had to close following the day it opened. But to protect our guests and cast, it was the only choice to make.
Links Hall could not have been more generous, flexible and kind.
We will bring the event back. Together. When the earth calms and we are safe.
We will also be sharing a video of the show for all those who need and should see it. Soon.
These were the Directors notes for those who viewed or will view:
“I think it’s realistic to have hope. One can be a perverse idealist and say the easiest thing: ‘I despair. The world’s no good.’
That’s a perverse idealist. It’s practical to hope, because the hope is for us to survive as a human species.
That’s very realistic.”
I am searching for ways to express hope. Ways to express what I imagine is the demand and opportunity of a “working” faith. I long to create productions which examine the eagerness and ambition to believe - to firmly feel embraced by the universe, versus isolation and exercising the weight of self will.
I think of myself as an erratic agnostic. One who longs to believe, but suffers doubt. Therefore, the work I make examines the idea of god, the power of myth, stories of hope and tales of redemption.
Farewell Fables is a spiritual sequel to Tabletop Tragedies. The middle of an interactive triptych trilogy. Each show (The Garden, Whale Song and Laika) is an expression of prayer.
Prayer should and can be laughter, joy, community, acts of meaning and wild abandon. I think we are all reaching for the divine. I choose to do it through dreams and images, words and objects, song and generosity.
Our work investigates the universal questions orbiting the mystery of the divine - birth, purpose, service, faith, union, death.
We have not avoided the gigantic questions which affect each of our spirits.
We investigate through a medium of cartoon psychedelia spirituality. A church for the mad and hungry, dangerous and unruly.
This is an authentically devised work. Five weeks in a small room with a tremendous group of committed people, some words, some strange objects, and a lot of invited impulses. Devised work is difficult and unusual. We rely on the skills and impulses of each team number and eagerly develop something surprising and unexpected to each of us. That’s our trip.
It takes good people to the edge. But at the edge, you either withhold from fear, or you leap.
Frank Maugeri