the theater of desiring

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I maintain that students of the School for D-ing an S- need a whole genre of pieces or compositions that approach that difficult moment when someone asks what the heck it's all about anyway.

My first contribution the the genre is what I've been working on for the past 3 days, and it's an 8-minute theater piece written for my three siblings to deliver at Thanksgiving dinner in my absence.

It evolves from sibling rivalry into a theater of desiring, which I think is very fruitful territory for much more theater writing. I think that the shift from external to internal accountability that happens when you get a "what do you want?" goblin sitting on your shoulder that you listen to instead of a "conscience" is a very big shift. It was when I first encountered it, and I expect it is very different from a lot of status-quo-agreeing perspectives out there. I should like to know where it first came from (I don't expect the School originated it), and I think theater can be useful to examine the conversations that begin to happen when people speak what they want, without shoulds and rights and wrongs and victim-reality.

[Alternately, I wonder if others can manage a shift of the language of morality (right wrong should) ONTO a priority of desiring. "Should" and "right" translate to "I want", "wrong" to "I don't want." Don't let this devolve into relativity: if someone is doing what they want, don't call it "right" unless you want what they're doing, too.]

[[The above paragraph begs a closer look at the proper use of neologism, reclaiming words, sneaky double definitions, etc. For a different day.]]