Inferno

“[Quarter-way] on the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark,
For the straightforward pathway had been lost.
Ah me! how hard a thing it is to say
What was this forest savage, rough, and stern,
Which in the very thought renews the fear.
So bitter is it, death is little more;
But of the good to treat, which there I found,
Speak will I of the other things I saw there.”
-The Inferno, Dante Alighieri
( [ ]- original text: “Midway”)
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I guess I should sum up my show, so when I talk about it you know what I mean. It is based on the passage above, taken from Dante's Inferno. It chronicles a man’s journey through hell. However, unlike Dante’s hell, this man’s hell will be his own dark mind. This sojourner will meet a host of characters along the way that represent parts of himself he is not ready to face. It will literally be a man fighting his own demons.

It's a one-man-show, so I will play the man on the journey and all the other characters. It's semi-autobiographical. I'm also designing the set, costumes, and masks.

I havent finished the script and have a ton of work to do on it. Not sure how its going to end, but its a journey and a process, just like the one the character goes on. We'll see...

Most of the characters are based on architypes that we all have in us: our purely emotional side (in the show, a blind poet), our analytical side (a shrink), our strength (my fallen angel), and our bat-shit crazy bag ladies (Margaret Olivia Bouffet). There are others too...

So yeah, that gives you an idea of where it's coming from.