PSALMS LECTURETTE AND CONVERSATION


PRIMAL CONTEXT


THE DRAMATIC ACTION


STRUCTURAL CONTEXT


INTERIOR RESPONSE
Key to Canonical Hours Coliseum ExhortationOperating Image
HISTORICALSustenance Church Leader THEATREGallery/Pit/Stage
TYPES
PraiseSTATE OF Accompanying Affection
UNIQUENESSPsalms: Dramaturgy Form MYTHOLOGYDouble Cyclorama ImprecatoryBEING Existential Demand
Relationship to NSV/NRM Blackness overall DependenceKeystone Phrase
Wild PsalmistRefuge What Image did you hear/see?
DESCRIPTIONOut of Suffering SPEAKERParticipating Roles
THEME
Supplication
IMAGING
What evoked those images?
OF PSALMISTSpirit Man AUDIENCEPit/Gallery Audiences Contingency What were the Palmist's words?
new, Literary style All faces /your face ExultationWhat evoked those images?
Awe: Fear-Fascination Psalmist in center Appropriate to Psalm Offensiveness
DYNAMIC OFHappening in happening STAGING OFSpotlight
MOOD
Careful TimingHEARER'S INTERNAL Explosion, which imploded?
THE
Begin at the Center PERFORMANCERheostat Make breaks at role changeEXPERIENCE Awe which appears
EXPERIENCEPresence of Mystery Audience Participate Describe dynamic Psalms are your story
Standing present to deeps Body Postures Sustained/ForlornDesert/around water
PSALMIST'SSecular/Religious poetry ACTION OFBody Gestures POLARAnguish/CertaintySTATE OF THE Darkness/Glory Light
WITNESSObjectify universality PSALMISTFacial Expression STATESSolidarity/Lostness CENTERApostasy/ Heavenly Choir
State of Being Vocal QualityHelplessness Rescue Silence Presence