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THE NEW MAGIC THEATRE

The new theatre starts like a marriage - merely with the dream, the projected mystique, the ripened bloom of attraction.

Then the attendants to the blessed Product are gathered together one by one: technicians with lights, costumes, instruments, and artists who are all where they're at because they've had to go there. People not hung up, sick-souled, undependable or self-consciously insane. With belief in each other & something higher. There's a director, and others who organize & make posters & promises and some who sweep floors. Then the actors - chosen as lovers are chosen - for sensitivity, devotion, perception, strength. 

And writers. The scripts to be of the most universal & pertinent content for this new age, so that if the plays were to tour the entire world the simplicity & impact would always be right on. (Hopefully the poets will respond...)

In a generation that professes so much love, on a path constructed of the caked blood of the prophets before them, there must be some whose only concern is not wealth & power & private adventure; and the theatre, ideally, would belong to them. Not steel & snob appeal, but an old barn, a house, a living structure of any kind especially sanctified for this one purpose & used only for this. No matter that the velvet covered chairs are missing - it's the people, one by one, who make things come to life. 

The magicians then must find the spot. The two coasts of New York & Los Angeles have opposite (and sometimes interchangeable) energies: one expands, one contracts; one relates in smoggy heat, one ingrows in violent contrasts; one is concrete repression, one sprawling freedom; and one is happening and one is becoming. 

And San Francisco is always there, rich in layers of hardcore bohemians, warm baked bread, North Beach and Haight-Ashbury, and a certain sophistry about the whole act of creation.

But a troupe is a troop a multitude, and it can be anywhere. A place accessable to all three (& the world) would be ideal, so that members are always free to come & go if the Work calls for it, while resident members mind the store. More on places later...

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