Researching for a new Threshold piece BEAUTIFUL NON-VIOLENT ANARCHIST REVOLUTION, based on diaries of Julian Beck and Judith Malina--there is a section in Becks diaries where he asks a series of questions which still seem so relevant:
questions 1963
what is the difference between questions and answers
why do you go to the theatre
is it important to go to the theatre
is it important to read
do people who go to the theatre differ from people who don't go to the theatre
what happens to you if you go to the theatre
when you leave the theatre have you changed, that is of course you are changed by each moment of experience so three hours later you are naturally different, but i mean have you changed actively
do you want to change actively
are you content
is it good to change
is anything sufficient unchanged
do you go the theatre for answers
do you have any questions
does it matter how we live
what is happening to us
what happens in the theatre
do you go to the theatre to find out about life
is it easier to observe life in the theatre or in the street
have you experienced joy in the theatre
have you experienced joy in the street
what do you enjoy
do you get sensations in the theatre
do you go to the theatre for intellectual exercises
do you go to the theatre to find out if it has figured out what is going on
do you go to the theatre because it might be telling the truth
is anything that is the truth
are newspapers the thruth
do playwrights record the truth more than editors
do newspapers lie do playwrights lie do actors lie
do playwrights or editors or actors lie deliberately
do you got the theatre to see how well an actor can disguise himself as somebody else
do you think that actors should try to personify excellent being
what is excellent being
can an actor show you excellent being
what is useful
what is a good question
what is a way to find answers
what will knock down the prison walls
what is the way
what is the relationship between the actor and the spectator
what is speech
what is the important enquiry
do we have time to ask all the questions
which ones do you want to ask
will you ask them now
what do we need
how can we get it
how can we touch one another
how can we make it happen
how can we make a theatre which makes love now
how can we make a theatre which is worthy of the life of its spectators
how can we make a theatre when we do not know any answers but only vague hints about how to ask questions
i end with questions because i have no answers
but what i want is answers
questions 1968
how do we feed all the people
how do we stop all the wars
how do we open the doors of all the jails
how do we disintegrate violence
how do we obliterate racism
how do we get rid of money (capitalism)
how do we undo early death
how do we end militarism
how do we put an end to authoritarian systems
how do we end the class system thing
how do we find the answers to these questions
how do we do it now
