Sunday, 29 August 2010 19:13

SATURDAY'S VOYEUR '10- Tenth week of performance by Actor Brock Smith

VY10_Brock_Smith_croppedAn Exhibitionist of a most peculiar sort is an actor.
There have been many layers to the experience
of doing VOYEUR. In working with a devote professional team
of  writers, directors, stage managers, a dance captain,
and actors I have learned some amazing life lessons
about the professional exceptions of an actor.
Every moment calculated.  Every gesture fixed.
The meaning of the verse sacrosanct.
In The Year That Was time is all important.

The Year That Was a mirror to a society and to this actor.
A time of pain and chaos that I find myself in.
A time where oceans are turning black,
and pederasts are priest and politicians.
We attempt to transcend time, together.
These stories and the people they represent
Utah, America, and Earth.
One beautiful, chaotic, vulnerable
Earth. One infinitesimal, vulnerable, beautiful species,
Human. I see us for what we are, animals evolving.
Homo Sapien's are only 1.5 million years old
in a Solar System 4.6 billion years old.
We have a lot of growing up to do.

This show is a microcosm of events and circumstances
that are far out of our control in our personal lives.
The media, the newspapers, the television,
offers us a reflection of ourselves.
Placating our outrage, our darkest shadows and fears.
When I hear the horrors of current events,
the ripping current of rape, murder,
car crashes, war.  The sharp stream of McCabre
homogenized with soft news about 
celebrity sex and scandal I am left feeling ill.
It's like looking at the human condition in a warped mirror.
This was a catalyst to face this world.
These impossible circumstances,the pure audacity.
It brings odd reaction
Laughter.

This state, this country, this world, this actor is insane,
let's laugh it away! 
Brock Smith
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