Prologue Stage DirectionsLights low. A bare stage. A single lamppost or chair. The faint sound of seagulls and water lapping. A man steps forward — JAMES JOYCE (or an actor as Joyce). He wears round glasses, bowler hat, cane. He faces the audience directly, breaking the fourth wall.JOYCE (Prologue)Dublin.The sixteenth of June, nineteen hundred and four.A … [Read more...] about Ulysses on Stage: A Modern Drama Adaptation
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Proust on Stage: In Search of Lost Time Reimagined
Introduction by the Director When staging Proust, one faces the paradox of time itself: how to dramatize the invisible flow of memory without losing the pulse of theatre. My choice was to treat memory as action, to let light and sound shift with the fluidity of thought. Scenes move quickly — as fast as desire, as sharp as jealousy, as fragile as love. … [Read more...] about Proust on Stage: In Search of Lost Time Reimagined
Proust’s In Search of Lost Time Reimagined in Dialogue
Introduction by Marcel Proust When I first began to write, it was not to tell a story in the usual sense, but to capture the delicate vibrations of memory and the fleeting impressions that give life its texture. The world is made not of facts, but of sensations, of moments so fragile that they vanish almost as soon as they arrive. Yet within those moments lies … [Read more...] about Proust’s In Search of Lost Time Reimagined in Dialogue
In Search of Lost Time: A Poetic Study Cycle
Prologue — The Hour Before MemoryTime does not begin in clocks,nor in the pages of history.It begins in the trembling of the heart,in the faint fragrance of a forgotten room,in the sudden warmth of a summer long vanished.We are not born once,but many times —each memory a rebirth,each sensation a thresholdto another self within us.These poems are fragments of that … [Read more...] about In Search of Lost Time: A Poetic Study Cycle
The Journey of Life in Every Color
Prologue — The Canvas of TimeLife begins with a brushstroke.No one hears it, but if you listen closely, there is the sound of color spilling into the world: a quiet hum, like water over stone.The canvas is vast, stretching farther than the horizon, but we are too small at first to see it. The first strokes are soft and blue—so light they almost vanish into the … [Read more...] about The Journey of Life in Every Color
Frida’s Fire: What Her Paintings Were Trying to Say
Elena Poniatowska: Setting: A candlelit gallery before the doors open. The five paintings hang in silence. Marigolds surround the floor. Elena stands alone, holding one of Frida’s diaries.Frida did not paint beauty.She painted what beauty often avoids: pain, rupture, blood, survival.She painted miscarriage. She painted loneliness.She painted devotion … [Read more...] about Frida’s Fire: What Her Paintings Were Trying to Say
Rembrandt Revealed: The Soul Behind Five Masterpieces
Dr. Marieke de Winkel (Art Historian)Setting: A quiet gallery before dawn. The paintings are dim but waiting. The chairs are empty—for now.He painted men as they were, not as they wished to be remembered. He painted women with silence instead of spectacle. He painted his own aging face more than eighty times—not out of vanity, but out of compulsion, as if asking, … [Read more...] about Rembrandt Revealed: The Soul Behind Five Masterpieces
Vincent’s Light: Conversations Beyond the Canvas
Jo van Gogh-Bonger: Setting: A quiet museum before opening. The room is dark except for faint golden light on the five paintings. Jo stands alone at the center, holding a letter from Theo.You know him now.You know the stars, the sunflowers, the swirling skies.But there was a time when no one looked.A time when the canvases sat unbought. The … [Read more...] about Vincent’s Light: Conversations Beyond the Canvas
Leonardo da Vinci’s TED Talk: The Death of Curiosity
(Lights dim. The TED stage glows softly. Neil deGrasse Tyson walks out, notebook in hand.)Neil deGrasse Tyson:Before there were machines to think for us…Before we mapped the body, the heavens, or the mind…There was a man who dared to ask everything.He asked why birds fly, not to escape—but to understand.He asked how light bends, not to impress—but to witness.He … [Read more...] about Leonardo da Vinci’s TED Talk: The Death of Curiosity
Takashi Murakami & Andy Warhol on Art, Branding, and Culture
Takashi Murakami: Hello. I am Takashi Murakami, and I paint smiling flowers… but only because I’ve seen the opposite.Today, we gather not just to speak of art, but of the forces that shape it—commerce, trauma, digital futures, ego, and identity. In Japan, we say beauty must carry sadness. I believe art must carry contradiction.That’s why I invited these artists, … [Read more...] about Takashi Murakami & Andy Warhol on Art, Branding, and Culture