The Book of Doorways

Role : Writer, Director, Performer / Year : 2009

A play written for a single cast of 5 players. Performed on two stages for two audiences at once. The Book of Doorways is a story of a young alchemist, set off into the desert to uncover the mysterious disappearance of his father 21 years prior.

Written by Ari Lazer, and Performed by Lazer, Joanna Chapman Smith, Martin Reisle, Elliot Vaughan and Aiden Brant Briscall - who would go on to form the End Tree.

As the magus imagines us, mind is no matter.
But rather is fabric, woven whole and then scattered
Through the halls of creation, where stasis and laughter
And lone lamentation give way to a pattern
So subtle and still that our hungry stare shatters
The pool’s smooth reflection, our mirror torn to tatters.

And we must wait, on the edge of the pond
For our rings and our ripples to pass through the beyond
We must wait, patient, peacefully
For the pieces of you, and the pieces of me
To return back to stillness,
Where again we’ll be free. 

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