Subj: Brigid monologue
Date: 11/04/00
Query to Gemma Whelan, Breda Courtney
Wilde Irish Productions
Dear Gemma,
Dear Gemma,
Thank you for your interest in my monologue. Below is the structure I envision for my Brigid monologue piece, and the first piece which I performed (but it doesn't incorporated the structure...since that's newer). The challenge is working within a structure when I'm not sure what impetus is needed to carry a monolog of this length (10--15 minutes...seems like an eternity).
BRIGID I envision a ninefold story in three movements, as it were.
1, Brigit as mythological goddess Creatrix
a) maker of the earth—only she can hear the earth singing—she is wearing a cloak or mantle NSEW
b) as morning star/fire venus / love
3) as darkness/chaos (not sure of this aspect)
2 Brigit as saint
a) childhood Curragh north
b) sainthood Kildare west east, also Wales as St. Ffraid
BRIGID I envision a ninefold story in three movements, as it were.
1, Brigit as mythological goddess Creatrix
a) maker of the earth—only she can hear the earth singing—she is wearing a cloak or mantle NSEW
b) as morning star/fire venus / love
3) as darkness/chaos (not sure of this aspect)
2 Brigit as saint
a) childhood Curragh north
b) sainthood Kildare west east, also Wales as St. Ffraid
fight w/ imposter Brigid in Sweden?
c) death Ulster??? not sure of this aspect
3 Brigit as mortal
a) as changeling, invoke Brigid Cleary, little brigid/fairies
b) shiva/kali Bridie Murphy story
c) ?? tying in w/ Ulster and the red hand....destruction of the earth/ozone
Then I can work in something on the line of L Gregory's "You have taken the north from me, the south from me--that fabulous poem in Huston's The Dead....
Any other ideas gratefully sought.
see also
c) death Ulster??? not sure of this aspect
3 Brigit as mortal
a) as changeling, invoke Brigid Cleary, little brigid/fairies
b) shiva/kali Bridie Murphy story
c) ?? tying in w/ Ulster and the red hand....destruction of the earth/ozone
Then I can work in something on the line of L Gregory's "You have taken the north from me, the south from me--that fabulous poem in Huston's The Dead....
Any other ideas gratefully sought.
as to costume:
wig/crown w/20 cantles (xmas lights)... her mantle...I've some silk pieces I've made, with tendrils hidden beneath it, spreading as she spins to claim the earth.... not just the Curragh. And the evil that escapes to the sea (Bres/Fomorii) will return...armageddon-like...to haunt our own polluted earth. Alpha/omega: ourobouros. At closure, she lifts her red hand to the audience saying "read the hand..." (I borrowed that from Heaney...)
(I edited out much of the middle saint/mortal section out during my performance; part three is very weak as I didn't have an ending, and didn't know where to go with it. What is of interest? What has potential? (It ran away with me, I need to bridle it, but first I need to find a bridle! Was a time I had bridles aplenty.)
wig/crown w/20 cantles (xmas lights)... her mantle...I've some silk pieces I've made, with tendrils hidden beneath it, spreading as she spins to claim the earth.... not just the Curragh. And the evil that escapes to the sea (Bres/Fomorii) will return...armageddon-like...to haunt our own polluted earth. Alpha/omega: ourobouros. At closure, she lifts her red hand to the audience saying "read the hand..." (I borrowed that from Heaney...)
(I edited out much of the middle saint/mortal section out during my performance; part three is very weak as I didn't have an ending, and didn't know where to go with it. What is of interest? What has potential? (It ran away with me, I need to bridle it, but first I need to find a bridle! Was a time I had bridles aplenty.)
see also
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