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Friday Night Schedule
Friday nights, 7-9 pm. Doors open at 6:45.
1716A Linden Avenue (door on the right)
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One-Man Show of A Christmas Carol
Wednesday, December 14, 7:30 p.m. First Unitarian Universalist Church 1808 Woodmont Blvd., Nashville, TN 37215
Cost: Love Offering
You're invited to experience a special holiday treat when Mark Cabus brings his acclaimed one-man production of A Christmas Carol to Nashville, single-handedly playing all 18 characters from Dickens' classic tale of transformation and redemption, from Scrooge to the Ghosts to Tiny Tim. Cabus has been performing the one-man show for over a decade since since adapting the 1843 novella for the stage. A recent transplant from Nashville to Atlanta, he is offering this performance to FUUN on a love offering basis. "Cabus delivers a tour de force, acting out all the parts in Charles Dickens' Holiday classic and making it seem as if that's the only way it should be done...," wrote Kevin Nance, the former theatre critic for The Tennessean. "This Christmas Carol is one of the smallest yet most sensational shows of the year. Don't miss it." Capturing the brooding nature of the Scrooge story and the grittiness of 19th century London, Cabus eschews the "razzleberry dressing" approach to the popular holiday tale, instead focusing on its ghostly aspects and the dark heart of its leading figure, thus assuring that his spiritual triumph is even harder earned. Expect minimal sets and costumes and maximum embodiment. For those who have never caught Mark's stunning performance, this is a sure way to get in the holiday spirit. The evening is appropriate for all ages. Mark Cabus is a skilled actor and director, classically-trained in England and in New York. He has worked all over the world in film, television, and Off Broadway, regional, and children's theater. Onstage, Mark is recognized in his new home of Atlanta for his work with the GA Shakespeare Company and Theatre Emory and known in Tennessee for his performances with the Clarence Brown Company, TN Repertory Theatre, the Nashville Shakespeare Festival, and Naked Stages. His movie and TV credits range from the Warner Bros. blockbuster The Client and HBO's Emmy Award-winning Against the Wall to the NBC pilot, A Father for Charlie. His acclaimed one-man show of A Christmas Carol has been seen by nearly twenty thousand people in the Southeast. |
Practice Tip: Capacity
I often talk about willingness, know-how and capacity as they apply to practice. Here, I go into more detail on capacity.
Capacity has four dimensions: depth, staying power, versatility, and resilience.
To develop depth, let your attention rest on the breath (or other object of attention) and let the object completely absorb you. Do this for short periods, being clear and aware. If you do this for too long, you will likely fall into trance states, a form of dullness, or start to block experience, a form of suppression.
To develop staying power, rest in the experience of breathing, letting the resting become more and more complete, resting with whatever arises, relaxation, tension, etc. You can do this for longer periods, but only as long as actual resting is happening. When you aren't able to rest, take a break and come back.
To develop versatility, rest attention in the experience of breathing in different situations. Begin with easier situations and extend to more challenging ones. Again, short periods of clear stable attention are better.
And to develop resilience, learn to recognize the rhythms of practice, work deeply when conditions are right, and take a break when you feel dull, brittle, or tired. Resilience develops through the combination of making efforts and taking breaks before the effort causes any damage.
--Ken McLeod, Buddhist teacher and writer
http://musingsbyken.blogspot.com/2010/05/capacity.html
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