Alex Burger | Author, Screenwriter, Playwright
Author, Screenwriter, Playwright
I’ve just completed a five week trip across the USA. Atlanta, across the south to Texas, up to Kansas and Iowa, through Chicago and Detroit, down through Philly and the Carolinas and back to the South. Stopping on the way with friends, listening to Greek tragedies on tape while driving, watching the signs out my window. Here are a few.
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“Fire is fascinating to the unburned.” — Unknown origin |
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“In dark times, the eye begins to see.” –Theodore Roethke |
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“Why indeed must ‘God’ be a noun? Why not a verb?” — Mary Daly |
This morning my aunt Susan, uncle Steve, aunt Julie (my Skype), my mom, and my friend Jim all read through my play “my grandpa’s dead body.” The play borrows elements and characters from our own family, although mixes them with a darkness and a skewed vision of Iowa different from the one I live. It was a brave and moving experience, art and life co-mingling.
Drove through Selma this am. Shocked at the state of downtown – this was always a magical place to me and now it’s a ghost town. What has happened to one of the birth places of the civil rights movement?
