Runic Meaning in Texas Cattle Brands: Plays of the Organic Theatre - Bob Burleson

Beginning in written mimes, the most important language for Bob Burleson's plays became SCENE DIRECTIONS. Opened & dynamic form, the VORTEX, followed in THE CLOSE SHAVE, one of those mimes. SPEECH sprang from the physical movement of RABBI AKIBA & flowered in THE MOON PROPHET. The DRAMATIC ESSAY, a fourth growth level, extended the beginning silence, preverbal form, & verbal representation antecedent to it. The dramatic essay names a character after the playwright in his own work to know himself. THE SHOUTING HEAD OF PROPHET JOHN cast him as a child of its characters & changed him to a new man after he conquered its illusion. JAZZ PERFORMANCE IN THREE OR FOUR SETS expelled him so he & the tetralogy-trilogy, appearing in four OR three plays, each could stand independently of the other. Instead of beginning with objectivity, JAZZ PERFORMANCE established a way to make objectivity the theme of its own growth. The fifth level of the ORGANIC THEATRE inductively & developmentally expressed the dialogue & internal movement of all plays in the MISE-EN-SCENE. Plays & esthetic theory made one PRAXIS. Please order from Worksworth, Box 8382, Berkeley, CA 94707. Phone: 510-528-1346; FAX: 510-548-0313.Burleson, Bob is the author of 'Runic Meaning in Texas Cattle Brands: Plays of the Organic Theatre - Bob Burleson' with ISBN 9780913699898 and ISBN 0913699896.