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What is the Imagination Compact?And how can I support it while partying with Flux?Adam SzymkowiczPlaywright, Puck, April 28th History with Flux:Food:Soul: December ’07 staged reading of Adam’s Pretty TheftDream Project: First scene of The Dream ChainHave Another: A scene from Open MindsFlux Sundays: Herbie, Poet of the Wild West; Never Again; Open Minds; The Forbidden…

“A Klee painting named ‘Angelus Novus’ shows an angel looking as though he is about to move away from something he is fixedly contemplating. His eyes are staring, his mouth is open, his wings are spread. This is how one perceives the angel of history. His face is towards the past. Where we perceive a…

The Imagination Compact “The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact” A Midsummer Night’s Dream April 28, May 5, May 12, May 19 all at 8PMThe 4th St Theatre83 East Fourth StBetween 2nd and 3rd Aves Following on the success of last year’s exploration of La Vida Es Sueno, The Dream…

ON BIRDS AND BUNNIESOur Flux workshop on Sunday the 23rd, aka ‘Easter’, was a blissfully smaller turnout of 14 people – about 12 less than our recent average – and I welcomed the intimate crowd. ONEIDA, OR ISAIAH GOES SLEDDINGWe continued through Johnna Adams’ wonderful play about the utopian community in mid-1800’s New York, Oneida,…

On Friday the 21st I had the opportunity to see a preview Something You Did at Primary Stages, opening tonight. Without offering a review, there were several strong performances, and many good reasons to check out this play about the political wound of the 60’s and our difficulty in solving or salving that wound even…

On our Flux Sunday March 16th we completed working through Jeremy Basescu’s A Wonderful Wife. This was especially exciting because Jeremy (pictured to the left) was writing the play as we went along – one of the original goals of Flux Sunday was to serve as both spur and immediate gratification to plays in progress….

ALONE AND TOGETHEROne of our most exciting and well-executed Flux’s that I can remember, our work together on the 16th seemed to coalesce around themes of aloneness and togetherness. Those themes were especially lovely and unsettling in Johnna Adams’ play Oneida, Servants of Motion, about the Perfectionist communist christian utopian community that thrived for 33…

PLAYING WITH POWERFlux Sundays has been growing steadily, and we have now had to change our invitation structure so that new folks come for three sessions only – giving us a chance to know them, and vice versa – with the potential of future revisits after all on the waiting list have had a chance….

I was lucky enough to catch my friend (and Associate Member of Flux) Christina Shipp as Perdita in The American Globe Theatre’s The Winter’s Tale a few weeks ago. This is one of Shakespeare’s most beautifully written, yet enigmatic plays, shifting from desperate tragedy to pastoral comedy in the blink of a bear. As Perdita,…