It’s Independence Day, and I’m in the wrong country. The day should be hot, fireworks should be flying, and watermelon juice should be dripping down my chin. Instead, the weather is cool, the only sounds are light traffic and wind, and there’s a great ice cream place right down the street. Maybe this isn’t such […]
I’m not a farmer. I’m a city girl born in Brooklyn, NY and never more at home than in the middle of Manhattan. My roots are the northeast of the US, my family story that of many Americans in our nation of immigrants. I am of hot city streets, car horns, tall buildings and the […]
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, “Home”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHEOF_rcND8 Simon and Garfunkel, “Homeward Bound”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex8YNIhXydE Considering this theme, Joliet is my immediate thought. Geographically, I was born and raised in Illinois, but I do not proclaim this place as my home. I’ve fit in there, my family also resides in the city, but the soulmates I’ve adopted and […]
The theme of the John Hewitt International Summer School, the venue where we will be performing our plays in a number of weeks that I care not to remember, has a theme of “Living Among Strangers: The Lost Meaning of Home”. I just wanted to share a doodle that I ‘composed’, to state it pompously, […]
“Living among Strangers: The Lost Meaning of Home.” Where do I start to unpack this concept? Actually, it’s easier than I might think. Living among strangers is a state I find myself in often. I can tag along with any group, but do I really belong in any of them? When they start talking, I […]
It’s two o’clock in the morning, and Armagh is dead. But the city is not without life. No one walks the streets, but the very buildings seem to come to life, great slumbering giants waiting for the rise of dawn to turn them back to stone and wood and glass. They join together as if […]
I find myself continually filling the margins of my notebooks with words and phrases spoken by people around me. I’m a notorious eavesdropper, and whenever I find myself at a loss for inspiration, I flip back to these isolated thoughts in order to search for the train of thought that’s abandoned me. Thumbing through the […]
I think there are two versions of home, the one that will always be there waiting for you, and the home that is where you make it. When you’re in one place you always miss the other. Right now I am living in a foreign county, and although we are gradually becoming closer, essentially I […]
Living Among Strangers… I tend to think of the word stranger as calling someone a strange person. I haven’t met any classifiably strange people here. Everyone is friendly, kind, and curious. I don’t feel the least bit out of place. Everyone has been so welcoming and I feel totally comfortable in this environment. Maybe I […]
For our reading Wednesday night at 19:00 in the hostel Lounge, the following role assignments: Gerry: Joan Seamus: Chris Derek: Kate the Younger Fireball: Kimberley Felix: Jonathan Maggie: Allison Eugene: Kelsey Colm: James Stage directions and voice over: Terri And all other roles read by Chloe, Savanna and Kate the Elder as they come up: […]
