Author Archives: bembodavies

The Polish Tramp Earlier in the week, I’d gotten me two front teeth snapped off in this very hall by an errant knee. Eager not to miss the main event, I was back for more… After a torchlight parade through … Continue reading →

Vision DistilleryCircles Research Mill Ideas evaporate easily.  Constructing them again in public view, so that others can probe and query their structure and validity is a vital step if our gems are to survive.  Fighting for my favourites is a … Continue reading →

I am livid.  Once again I’ve been forced to witness ‘presumed’ theatre:  now is the time for directness — the naked concept unswathed in cumbersome allusion or metaphor.  A chorus of aspiring somethings have let themselves be recruited by their … Continue reading →

Many things are inevitable. Some just take a long time. For reasons unbeknownst to me, I said yes. It couldn’t have gone better… Being swaddled in the vestments of a bloody artist may have gotten me as far as a … Continue reading →

Mining the Metaphor II Art by committee can be questionable amounts of fun. Hopefully, the grand idea gets propped up from multiple directions; but it can easily take a democratic pummeling. A project’s success may depend less upon one clear … Continue reading →

Full Moon, 16-19 September, Kokkinopilos, Mount Olympus Once again the unMonastery succumbed to our favourite fetish:  whenever possible, we place major our occasions along the notches of the Saros cycle. It is as if we still harbour the belief that … Continue reading →

The Fossil Record is ambiguous. Paleontology cannot detect the minor evolutions in the alignment of bone fragments that could conclusively indicate that a branch of the humanoid family suddenly spent large amounts of time exploring choreographed sequences. Physiologically, it all … Continue reading →

A Speech of Parts – the Language of an inspired Actor If theatre is a language, it could conceivably have a stable grammar and strict grammatical rules. But languages evolve, and we who grew up speaking them as our mother … Continue reading →

Two Annual Gathering designs as inspired by meeting with Göhrde. In early September 2015, three veteran unMonasterians descended for two days upon Göhrde, an hour south of Hamburg.  Ben flew in from Istanbul, Katalin came from Lausanne, and Bembo dropped … Continue reading →