MEMBER BLOG TAG: jefferson
| Thursday, December 1, 2011 10:58AM | | | | Writing Lesson From a Mime | Tags: Dallas Theater Center, Theater of Nations, As I Lay Dying, Kennedy assassination, Baylor University, Journey to Jefferson, Marcell Marceau, Etienne Decroux, Waco, Jean-Louis Barrault, Faulkner, Hemingway
| | | | The Dallas Theater Center was selected to present my adaptation of a Faulkner novel at the Theater of Nations competition in Paris. The year was 1964, a year after the Kennedy assassination, and the novel was As I Lay Dying. A troubled Charles “Chip” Bohlen, US ambassador to France, called to say that the French loved President Kennedy and posters highlighting Dallas and “As I Lay Dying” would horrify them. The title of the play had to be changed.
On a transatlantic call I changed the title of the play to “Journey to Jefferson,” and the Dallas Theater Center production of the play received a Special Jury Award.
One night when we were dark, the cast decided to see Marcell Marceau who was appearing at... | | | | | | | Wednesday, November 4, 2009 1:43PM | | | | Christian Nation | Tags: wall of separation, Treaty of Tripoli, Jefferson, Madison, Tyler, Lincoln
| | | | I’m proud to be an American but I’m not proud of everything Americans have done. Some came to this land for religious freedom and denied it to others. Some believed God had given them the land and were willing to kill to take it. Some for personal profit ravaged the earth, waterways and air that belonged to all. Some kept human beings as slaves. Some of us applauded targeting civilians and firebombing cities. Some believe we have the right to occupy other lands, control other territories, torture POWs for our security. Some wish to deny health care to others.
To call such a nation Christian does not honor our Savior and is not true. Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation” does not appear in the Constitution but... | | | | | |
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