Act Without Words, INNER EYE, John Toth, Jean Taylor, Shelley Wyant

INTERMEDIA COLLABORATION presented at the 78th Street Theatre Lab, New York, NY. May 2, 3, 9, 10, 16, 17th, 2003		JohnToth.Net Intermedia. Hypermedia and the Sublime.
Act Without Words A Mime for One Player By Samuel Beckett		Actors: Alan Nebelthau, Jean Taylor Intermedia art : John Toth Director: Shelley Wyant, Producer: Eric Nightengale
	2003	Act Without Words Samuel Beckett's play Act Without Words with Alan Nebalthal and Jean Taylor is presented as being somewhere between the real theater stage and a projected virtual reality fabric set by John Toth. Directed by Shelley Wyant and Eric Nightingale
flash animation
		Desert. Dazzling light. (Desert; Landscape; Bright light from above.)
		The man is flung backwards on stage from right wing. (Whistle from right wing # 1)
		He falls (Piano. He reflects)
		gets up immediately,
		dusts himself off,
		turns aside,
		reflects.
		Whistle from right wing. (Whistle # 9)
		He reflects, goes out right.
		Immediately flung back on stage he falls, gets up immediately, dusts himself off, turns asides,
		reflects.
		Whistle from left wing. (Whistle # 4)
		He reflects, goes towards left wing, hesitates, thinks better of it, halts,
		turns aside, reflects.
		A little tree descends from flies, lands. (Virtual tree descends, then actual trees unfolds from ceiling)
		It has a single bough some three yards from ground and at its summit a meager tuft of palms casting at its foot a circle of shadow. (a circle of light and shadow)
		Whistle from right.
		Beside carafe a rope descends from flies, with knots to facilitate assent. (virtual snake in)
		Whistle from above. He turns, sees rope, reflects, goes to it, climbs up it (virtual rope in)
		and is about to reach carafe when rope is let out and deposits him back on the ground. (actual rope in)
		He reflects, looks around for scissors, sees them, goes and picks them up, returns to rope and starts to cut it with scissors.
		The rope is pulled up,
		lifts him off ground,
		The carafe is pulled up quickly and disappears in flies.
		He turns aside, reflects.
		He goes with lasso in his hand to tree, looks at bough, turns and looks at cubes, looks again at bough,
		drops lasso, goes to cubes, takes up small one,
		carries it over and sets it down under bough, makes to put it on small one,
		hesitates, thinks better of it, sets it down, takes up small one and puts it on big one, tests their stability, turns aside and stoops to pick up lasso.
		He carries back cubes to their place, one by one, goes back for lasso, carries it over to cubes and lays it in a neat coil on small one.
		Whistle from above right
		A tiny carafe, to which is attached a huge label inscribed WATER,
		descends from flies to some three yards from ground where it remains dangling.
		He continues to reflect.
		Whistle from above.
		He looks up, sees carafe, reflects, gets up, goes and stands under it, tries in vain to reach it, renounces, turns aside, reflects.
		He turns, sees third cube, looks at it,
		reflects
		turns aside,
		reflects.
		Whistle from left wing. Virtual butterfly while looking at hands.
		He does not move. (A pair of tailor scissors descends from flies.)
		He looks at his hands, looks around for scissors, sees them,
		goes and picks them up,
		starts to trim his nails,
		stops,
		reflects,
		runs his finger along blade of scissors, (He looks up...)
		The carafe is pulled up and disappears in flies. The bough returns to horizontal, the palms open, the shadow returns.
		Whistle from above. He does not move.
		The tree is pulled up and disappears in flies (Tree rises into flies.)



		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Act_Without_Words_II http://www.samuel-beckett.net/ http://samuel-beckett.net/Act_Without_Words.html
		The above is an experiment in visual play between the real and virtual. "Act Without Words" is a mimed drama written by Samuel Beckett containing only stage directions. "Act Without Words I is a short play by Samuel Beckett. It is a mime, Beckett's first (followed by Act Without Words II). Like many of Beckett's works, the play was originally written in French (Acte sans paroles I), being translated into English by Beckett himself. It was written in 1956 and first performed on April 3 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre in London. On that occasion it followed a performance of Endgame. The original music to accompany the performance was written by John Beckett, Samuel's cousin (who would later collaborate with him on the radio play Words and Music)". http://www.answers.com/topic/act-without-words-i
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