On this episode, Patrick talks to publicist Ali Arif about his solo theatre show he’s still performing at the age of 70.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Archy is a cockroach, the reincarnation of a bad poet. His friend, Mehitabel is a down at heel alley cat who claims to be the reincarnation of Cleopatra. Their conversations are very funny, Mehitabel gets into all sorts of scrapes and Archy has a jaundiced view of human nature. Every night he crawls out of his hiding place in the apartment owned by ‘Boss’ and types a poem on his typewriter every night about Archy’s life.
• It was written in the 1920s-30s so it has a jazz age feel to it and includes wonderful New York street slang. The language is brilliant, witty and funny.
• When I was a child there used to be huge clouds of butterflies in the summertime, & that doesn’t happen any more except in protected areas. We’re losing so much of the insect population which is affecting the bird population. There’s a while chain of events that occur when we don’t protect even the smallest life forms. Archy has a message to the human race about what we’re doing to ourselves.
• I love the young people who are much more environmentally aware than my generation who squandered a lot of the resources of the planet. What’s fantastic about Archy and Mehitabel is that Don Marquis wrote it nearly 100 years ago. People then were well aware that industrial scale society was already using up the resources of the planet, as did Zola, Dickens, Blake many years before that.

BEST MOMENTS

‘It’s a funny, satirical view of human nature and its follies.’

‘I play about 20 different characters during the course of the play.’

‘All actors are, in one way or another, show -offs, and this is my show-off show.’

‘Insects will inherit the planet, we are destroying ourselves & turning the planet into a desert.’

ABOUT THE HOST

Patrick Kealey has been an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher and workshop leader for 0ver 40 years. He runs a professional theatre company based in Hastings UK where he currently lives. Please get in touch with me on the following links below!

CONTACT METHOD

www.theatrenation.org

https://www.instagram.com/pktheatrenation/

On this episode, Patrick is joined once more by Harold Lewey to talk about how everything is interconnected & how some humans can often close themselves off from the web of life while others seem to be able to connect to everything.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• One of the greatest blessings I ever received is that I see beauty everywhere, I literally identify that everything no matter how beautiful, harmonic, or dissonant & annoying, there is beauty absolutely everywhere. Live is a big, strong river coursing ahead & all things are connected to that river.
• After what my father lived through in a concentration camp he became an addict of life & truly helped everybody along the way. He never spoke about it, but he did. So, I had examples & teachers, people aren’t necessarily meant to know, we learn as we go by example, mimicry, by need – which is the greatest inventor.
• There are different types of connection. One of them is inside: Knowing who I am. Once I know that & I have self-identity, then the ‘I’ exists & I look, I see, I go, I touch & can then reach out to the outside. There’s confusion, a lot of people mix it together & look for self-identity based on how other see them because they haven’t taken the time to create the ground base of connection with themselves. These are not interchangeable, you won’t survive with only one, there needs to be balance.
• All human beings need belonging. The question is; what do we belong to & what do we give up of our individual identify to belong. What most people do is create their own little pack, but even within the pack, we’re all different, so we’re doomed to be alone. The first difference we have to accept is our own difference within ourselves, we have our own parts that are different, we believe certain things & there are parts that don’t agree with that part. We tend to meet people that touch that particular point.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Creation is a series of beautiful & sometimes absolutely terrifying manifestations of an endless flow of energy going on. Truly, we are in the river of life.’

‘I don’t believe there’s anything that’s correct or incorrect, as long as we’re not hurting others or ourselves what’s the danger to connecting to & seeing the beauty in everything.’

‘The work begins inside.’

‘The greatest importance for baby is to be held.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Harold Lewey has 40 years in group dynamics leadership, & finding one's voice & direction using theatre, art, music & movement.

Harold's focus has been reading of the unspoken body languages that reveal who we are + how we operate. Accompanying change, seeking Peace, finding humour in detail + perspective in the bigger picture.

ABOUT THE HOST

Patrick Kealey has been an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher and workshop leader for 0ver 40 years. He runs a professional theatre company based in Hastings UK where he currently lives. Please get in touch with me on the following links below!

CONTACT METHOD

www.theatrenation.org

https://www.instagram.com/pktheatrenation/

On this episode, Patrick is joined once more by Harold Lewey to talk about abundance & what it means for them.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• For most people abundance means plentifulness, the cornucopia of life, the richness of fruit pouring out of a conch shell in great quantity. My personal take is that all things I need, want & are meant for me will find me & I will find them. That is the philosophy of abundance & living in abundance. The question is when? Through whom? & how?
• There is an issue that for certain people it has nothing to do with quantity, it has to do with quality. They’re not really interested in quantity, they want a certain quality to their lives. For them abundance has nothing to do with quantity, it has to do with the specifics of quality.
• Is the glass half full or half empty? If you’re looking at the part that’s half empty you will experience the emptiness, if you’re looking at the part that’s half full you will experience the fullness. Look inside & think: “Let me appreciate what I have at this point as being the perfect amount and quality for what I’m capable of doing.” It has a lot to do with people learning humility & patience & being able to handle their own arrogance that they deserve or are supposed to have certain things, jealousy & envy. These are issues we need to deal with
• For one person abundance might be owning a lot of clothes that they never wear, for another it might be having lots of toys, for another simply having one pair of Ray-Ban sunglasses is abundance. Many years ago I heard a guru saying the for her abundance was stuffed olives, they were the ultimate in luxury because you could get a kilo of regular olives for the same price as a small jar of stuffed olives.

BEST MOMENTS

‘Abundance itself is purely an attitude. You can be with nothing & feel & experience abundance or you can have everything & feel short-changed.’

‘Life is full. If you’re rich in problems you’re still rich.’

‘Just because you have a lot of something doesn’t mean you can appreciate it, absorb it or even realise that’s what you have.’

‘A lot of us are still working vacuum which has nothing to do with what does & doesn’t exist in the world, it has to do with our relationship with the emptiness we experience, & no amount of abundance can ever fill that.’

ABOUT THE GUEST

Harold Lewey has 40 years in group dynamics leadership, & finding one's voice & direction using theatre, art, music & movement.

Harold's focus has been reading of the unspoken body languages that reveal who we are + how we operate. Accompanying change, seeking Peace, finding humour in detail + perspective in the bigger picture.

ABOUT THE HOST

Patrick Kealey has been an actor, theatre director, writer and teacher and workshop leader for 0ver 40 years. He runs a professional theatre company based in Hastings UK where he currently lives. Please get in touch with me on the following links below!

CONTACT METHOD

www.theatrenation.org

https://www.instagram.com/pktheatrenation/