I wanted to get some students to cooperatively write a piece of text that can be used in the performance.
The text will be spoken, or shouted or declaimed or ranted in some way. This will probably occur over some hopefully rather disjointed music.
What did we do?
Well, hijacked a year 12 Literature class and shared access to a google doc of the text by John Donne. We discussed the poem briefly and all the students wrote comments. They then responded to each others comments and added more.
I took the final text from the doc and gave a very minor editing, which took no more than 15 minutes. Much of the editing was to remove some of the longer sentences and split them into choppier phrases.
Here is the final piece, which I think has some broken internal rhythm. I am very pleased with the text and I am sure we can use it.
No
man is an island
entire
of itself;
No one is self
sufficient, entirely,
entirely self, entirely sufficient,
entirely self sufficient
no man is isolated
Why Man
Are men united
Are women segregated?
Are women inferior to
men? Superior to Men, equal to men, the same as men, different to men?
When did he write this?
Did women have no place
in the world?
Do women have a place in
the world?
Will women have no place
in the world
What about now?
Everything an individual
does, it ripples across the community
Like water ripples round
an Island
Like water ripples
in puddle
Like water ripples in a
ripple
A ripple on a ripple
Some people live as
islands
Do they choose to live
as islands.
Do they have a choice
Can they have a choice
is seclusion an
impossibility?
Can they function
without other people
If they can’t
function with other people
every
man is a piece of the continent,
a
part of the main;
We don’t live in
isolation
sense of community
community of sense
We are interconnected,
We are together,
Only together
only together can we
make a difference
Sense of unity
Unity of sense
You can be separated
into groups
You can be separated
into countries
, but you’re still part
of the continent
if
a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe
is the less,
land
piece of land
every piece of land
every piece of land is
important
one man gone makes the
society weaker
Why Europe
the only continent? Is Europe
the ‘main’?
origin of Western
civilisation
Western sillivisation
If a clod breaks off
washes away
continent is less
so the people are less.
So when one man dies,
whole of mankind
is lessened by that
death
everyone is important to
the group
regardless of
nationality, or race, or cast, or gender, or sexuality, or politics, or
religion
the tiniest difference
matters
every action is
important
affects all of us
as well as if a
promontory were,
promontory means like
outcast
like cast out
like on the edge,
like off the edge
No matter how isolated
we may feel, we are still united as one
Is a promontory
someone who stands out
from the crowd?
What happens if we
reject him/her?
What does that say about
us?
as well as any manner
of thy friends
“promontory” and “friends”, juxtaposed
Outsiders should not be
your friends?
Or Outsiders should be
friends
Do we prove the point?
Do we disprove that
point?
or of thine own were;
no individualism -
collectivism,
we are all
interdependent
importance of cohesion
any
man's death diminishes me,
because
I am involved in mankind.
if one gets affected
everyone affected
impact on a collective
has an effect on an individual
Affected Collective
Alliteration
death and diminishes
highlights the notion of
the collective being affected if one dies
the human collective vs.
individual
Collected Affective
‘Diminishes me’
we are part of the
community
A loss will affect us
all.
Diminish, reduce to
nothing, become one of the invisible people
we should all be
personally involved with each other
our duty to protect each other
our duty to protect each other
Is our belief in caring
for mankind simply a form of tokenism? Do we just tick the boxes at Island
School?
Does mankind simply
refer to our species or does it symbolise the abstract connection we have
between us?
And
therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
it
tolls for thee
“It tolls for thee” short, sharp death
Bells ring for the
collective,
not for individuals-
We are the bells, and
together we can make something.
Bells should not ring
for one person, but for everyone.
Bells call for death?
Another’s death is also
one’s loss
The loss of one person
is a loss for everyone
There is always
something you can do to help others
Don’t think about
whether you’re important
everyone is as important
as everybody else,
equality.
The bells bring people
together-
for a funeral or a
wedding
important as everybody
else,
equality.
The bells bring people
together
for a funeral or a
wedding
Whistleblower on the run
Whistleblower on the run
Hawaii to Hong Kong
Hong Kong to Moscow
Moscow to Ecuador
do we isolate him because
of his actions,
because he is a
promontory,
or do we protect?
Protests in Brazil
Protests in Turkey –
connections between the
two
Small group of people
then the entire country
Promontory. The bells
toll.
Liu Xiabo
what is happening in our
own back yard?
Are we aware
Does his situation
connect to ours...
potentially?
Do we care until it
happens to us too?
Promontiry
Bells
Bells Bells
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