Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

And I tried to follow his voice along the sand.

That would be simply - simply so weird, Wally.

Because the wonderful thing about scientific theories about things...

I enjoy going through the notebook...

Now, you could easily see, 'cause we're talking about group trance...

Seven swimming shrimp.

a little tiny room that had once had tools in it.

See, my actual response - I mean -

And once again you don't know quite what you should do next.

at the superficiality of these things.

And in all the work that I was involved in, there was always that danger.

So, of course - of course, I'm ignoring...

I mean, I didn't know how long I'd be in there -

There was something about this that was so powerful...

I'm reading Charlton Heston's autobiography.

And now everybody's redefined the theater in such a trivial way...

I mean, that hostility was just some feeling that was, you know...

Sometimes I'd go off and meditate by myself.

And he'd have talks with the fauns.

that the flag would pick up vibrations of a kind...

because, I mean, if I'd listened to those people, I would have gone out there on stage...

He said you looked like you'd come back from a war.

I mean, when I was in Israel a little while ago -

and maybe you can do it at home.

and raspberry soup and rabbit stew.

work on the play, what you've got to do tomorrow.

And when I met him at Findhorn, he said to me, “Where are you from?”

So, two weeks later, I came back.

I just instinctively sort of- You know, if it says something like, uh...

the great Polish theater director...

You know, and I could do things like go out to the highway...

I mean, we're just walking around in some kind of fog.

Maybe that's true. But I mean, isn't there any kind of writing or any kind of a play -

What does that mean? A wife.

had brought musical instruments, a flute and a drum...

Because that's what you do, out of habit?

They're feeling that there'll be these pockets of light...

So I said, “Well, if you could give me...

which would always happen after about five minutes...

So I went down to meet this flag maker that I'd heard about.

I mean, you know, in the theater, if you get good reviews...

and I went in to see her...

I think that, uh, purposefulness...

I mean, what was amazing in the workshops I led...

I went completely on impulse.

Apparently, George had been walking his dog in an odd section of town the night before...

There's something like a kaleidoscope, like a human kaleidoscope.

But then that feeling goes quite quickly.

which was always involved with either movement, rhythm, repetition or song -

You know, when I was a young director, and I directed the Bacchae at Yale...

And it's just unbelievably beautiful.

and he totally failed to perceive anything else.

No. Goals and plans are not-

except, uh, the few little things that they wanted to see.

this flag flying over us...

I mean, first of all, there are some pretty good reasons for being frightened.

And I remember watching people preparing for this evening.

that every action of ours should be a prayer...

six months later, in France, with some friends...

over our old way of life, and it is just great.

And I had told him that I didn't want to come, because, really, I had nothing left to teach.

I mean, he ate twice as much as Nicolas ate, you know?

So, at random, I picked one out, I opened it up...

and still have been supporting his family?

And then on the final day of our stay in the forest...

Conference on paratheatrical work then.

and he wouldn't even go in and say hello to her.

He's a Swedish physicist. Gustav Björnstrand.

I mean, in other words, uh...

to somehow sort of strip away every scrap of purposefulness...

and he'd suddenly come upon André...

Then I thought, “That guy is me.”

That's interesting, Wally.

And he was telling story after story about his mother.

I mean, uh - I mean, at least a few years ago people who really cared about the theater...

By 5:00 I'd finally made it to the post office...

I mean, I think that's why I never understand what's going on at a party.

Well, so that was - that was Christmas.

“I could always live in my art but never in my life.”

Of course, the problem is where to go.

Finally, I got around to asking him what he'd been up to in the last few years.

I mean, they would have just shrunk, you know, just in horror...

You see, I've had a very rough time in the last few months, Wally.

And I would just wail and yell my lungs out out there on the dunes.

“These are all people who have in common the fact that they're questioning the theater.

What kind of things did I like? What kind of people did I really want to be with? You know?

blindfold taken off, and run through these fields.

I think it would just blow your brains out.

you feel for a moment that you've got your hands on something.

just playing with their plastic duck...

is to find out how to preserve the light, life, the culture...

to, uh, take everybody to, uh, Everest...

- Very good. - I'll - I'll also have one. Thank you.

You go dancing or something. You're floating free.

Uh, then-then they got me to my feet and they took photographs of me, naked.

I mean, our lives are tough enough as it is.

And to not know what the next moment will bring...

Oh, yeah. This was me in the forest. See?

He's completely cut them out of his life...

and about my girlfriend, Debby.

And at one point, I noticed that Grotowski was at the center of one group...

so long as I think of the world as consisting of, you know...

I mean, they're - they're fantasy. They're part of a dream life.

and she was sort of cradling me in her arms, and then she started to cry too.

without having any particular thing that you were supposed to be doing.

of professional or literary people...

was how to have a roof that would stay on the building...

And we came to a great circle of fire, with music and hot wine...

and you're not conscious of the reality of what's happening to you.

Grotowski. Is he still thin?

I've lived in the same room with this person, but I haven't really seen them.

can leave you vulnerable to all sorts of very frightening manipulation.

I mean, very few things happen now like that moment...

and he was one of Scotland's - well, he was Scotland's greatest mathematician...

based on the state of the airplane and the state of the pilot.

You see, he'd invited me to come to teach that summer in Poland.

I mean - I mean, you found the handprint in the book...

And somebody else wanted to bring a large bowl of water...

to this very strong, deep reaction against science that we're seeing now...

don't in any way affect us?

huddling together for warmth against the cold.

His laugh was so horrible.

And, I mean, I just - I just don't know how anybody could enjoy anything more...

was eating a little bowl of milk - hot milk with rice -

suppose you're going through some kind of hell in your own life.

- Yeah. I know what you mean. - I mean, the doctor didn't see my mother.

you might have the actors playing the mother, the son and the uncle...

that just help your audience to sleep more comfortably...

because I really do think the theater can do something very important.

that they realized that to go off together in the forest was much more important...

and you can't just believe absolutely anything.

I mean, you're doing all these things, but are you doing them...

I mean, you know, we'd visit friends who had children...

What we wanted to do was we wanted to take, you know -

that life existed on the planet.

because they had literally set up hundreds of candles and torches.

who was a friend and almost like a kind of a guru of André's.

I mean, he could literally go like this -

I put it on a piece of paper, I outlined it with a pen...

Because if you believe in omens, then that means that the universe -