David Sparenberg

David Sparenberg: poet-playwright, storyteller, Shakespearen actor, member of the Academy of American Poets. He is author of PLAYS for an American Activist Theatre and THE GREEN TROUBADOUR RESOURCE BOOK.


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	Freedom! by David Sparenberg Freedom!What is it?Freedom from—freedom from nothingnesseven though we are alwaysfacing into death,freedom from fear of nothingnessand freedomfrom the shadows of that fear,too often cast by
	INKTOMI'S MESSAGE = a retelling out of oral tradition by David Sparenberg Inktomi, spiderman, visited the tribes of the Northern Great Plains. Each time descending from the sky on a silken thread, Inkto brought a message of desolation to the Arapaho, the Blackfoot, the Crow, the Cheyenne, Dakota, and Lakota.
	LIFE IS A DESIRE, NOT A MEANING: an addendum to "On the Foundations of Green Acting" by David Sparenberg Life is desire to create life, to proliferate, to be alive; to encroach upon nothingness and to exceed beyond death. Meanings are variables. With a disposition of openness meanings remain questionable—Socratic. Because w

	From Kabbalah by David Sparenberg In the annals of Kabbalah there is recorded that before the present Earth-world—of beauty imperiled, of diversity being diminished—there were seven other worlds, brute works of monstrous forces and inhabitants; worlds out of balance
	VIOLENCE: EARTH, HUMANITY and GOD by David Sparenberg Today we hear about the violent Earth—eruptions of fire, rogue waves, tremors, quakes, mega-storms, speeding walls of ocean water, weather like a rampaging berserker. But we accept without question the violence of humanity. We
	FUKUSHIMA - A Protest Monologue by David Sparenberg There is a scene in Bram Stoker’s Dracula which is, for me, the most frightening. It is not a depiction of the vampire’s infernal, blood lusting eyes, of the vampire’s gore dripping fangs and death mask fixation, or even
	Streets of Cairo, Byways of Benghazi by David Sparenberg how many Jesuses are in the streets of Cairo or the byways of Benghazi where blood of innocents is spilled to fortify power for the latest emperor of madness and oilwhere the kingdom of heaven wears the camouflage of rebell
	If Ever There Was A Time by David Sparenberg Nobody is spared some contact with the common diseases of human uncleanness and planetary abuse. Cancer, madness, rape of the Earth. Nobody is spared degrees of involvement with acts of crime, violence, which, always and everywhere, are eclips
	NOSFERATU, pathology of the undead, a monologue by David Sparenberg Pain is a broken mirror. What? You don’t believe that suffering is glass? My eyes have been shattered by tears for many years. Look! Is this a human face? No! It is a mockery, etched in hell.
	On the foundations of Green Acting by David Sparenberg At the onset of these reflections, I acknowledge my indebtedness to the explorations and teachings of Jerzy Grotowski, Tadashi Suzuki, Yoshi Oida and Anne Bogart. That said, here are the points of importance.A foun
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