WHEN STORY STOPS, THE LEAK BEGINS
When Story Stops, the Leak Begins is a true hybrid: a sequence of “poem-scripts” in three acts comprised of skaz-inflected dialogue, influenced by writing and performance traditions ranging from Grotowski / Chaikin through Burroughs-Acker-Herrera into more recent efforts by Roberto Bolaño (as prose) and Rodrigo Toscano (as hybrid poetry). The poem-script format provides structure while voicing, pace and character dynamics offer a range of angles to approach meaning, as the text embodies that enduring tension between writing and physicality in which, as Eugenio Barba put it, “only the actions are alive, but only the words remain.” In Hollywood shorthand, When Story Stops, the Leak Begins could best be described as a spiritual adventure story in which Six Characters in Search of an Author jump headlong without a net into a Canterbury Tales style quest across a dreamscape merging scenography from Waiting for Godot with digital shards of Bladerunner in a rowdy and irreverent Voyage to Arcturus.
Multigenre
ISBN: 978-1-950730-38-4
Publication Date: April 21, 2020
When Story Stops, the Leak Begins is a true hybrid: a sequence of “poem-scripts” in three acts comprised of skaz-inflected dialogue, influenced by writing and performance traditions ranging from Grotowski / Chaikin through Burroughs-Acker-Herrera into more recent efforts by Roberto Bolaño (as prose) and Rodrigo Toscano (as hybrid poetry). The poem-script format provides structure while voicing, pace and character dynamics offer a range of angles to approach meaning, as the text embodies that enduring tension between writing and physicality in which, as Eugenio Barba put it, “only the actions are alive, but only the words remain.” In Hollywood shorthand, When Story Stops, the Leak Begins could best be described as a spiritual adventure story in which Six Characters in Search of an Author jump headlong without a net into a Canterbury Tales style quest across a dreamscape merging scenography from Waiting for Godot with digital shards of Bladerunner in a rowdy and irreverent Voyage to Arcturus.
Multigenre
ISBN: 978-1-950730-38-4
Publication Date: April 21, 2020
When Story Stops, the Leak Begins is a true hybrid: a sequence of “poem-scripts” in three acts comprised of skaz-inflected dialogue, influenced by writing and performance traditions ranging from Grotowski / Chaikin through Burroughs-Acker-Herrera into more recent efforts by Roberto Bolaño (as prose) and Rodrigo Toscano (as hybrid poetry). The poem-script format provides structure while voicing, pace and character dynamics offer a range of angles to approach meaning, as the text embodies that enduring tension between writing and physicality in which, as Eugenio Barba put it, “only the actions are alive, but only the words remain.” In Hollywood shorthand, When Story Stops, the Leak Begins could best be described as a spiritual adventure story in which Six Characters in Search of an Author jump headlong without a net into a Canterbury Tales style quest across a dreamscape merging scenography from Waiting for Godot with digital shards of Bladerunner in a rowdy and irreverent Voyage to Arcturus.
Multigenre
ISBN: 978-1-950730-38-4
Publication Date: April 21, 2020
About JOHN SULLIVAN
John Sullivan was an American College Theatre Festival Playwriting finalist, received the 'Jack Kerouac Literary Prize, ' 'Writers Voice: New Voices of the West' Award, AZ Arts Fellowships (Poetry & Playwriting), Artists Studio Center Fellowship, WESTAF Fellowship, was a featured playwright at Denver's Changing Scene Summer Play, and an Eco-Arts Performance Fellow from Earth Matters On Stage (University of Oregon). He was Artistic / Producing Director of Theater Degree Zero, collaborated with the Bi-National Theatre Project (Instituto Tecnológico de Nogales-Sonora, Mexico / Cochise College, Douglas AZ) and directed the Augusto Boal / Theatre of the Oppressed focused applied theatre wing at Seattle Public Theater. For the past decade, he has used Theatre of the Oppressed with vulnerable communities to promote dialogue on toxic exposures-cumulative risk / environmental justice issues with NIEHS environmental health scientists. He was a writer for the online journal, Community Arts Network / Art in the Public Interest and has published articles on Community-Based Participatory Research in scientific journals such as New Solutions, Environmental Health Insights and Local Environment: the International Journal of Justice & Sustainability.
