A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 16 - Oscar Wilde & The Ballad of Reading Gaol

A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 17 - Anonymous Poetry

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2181385/fan_mail/new] Max discusses how he enjoys poems, a chapter from the book 500 Greatest Poems, and some poems don't have the names of the poets or the year they were written, and some go back to the year 1250 and earlier.  Edward, Edward is one from the 1600s about a man going to sea, and what he'll leave for his family and his beloved mother.  The Three Ravens is about birds set in a tree, and they think about a meal while they look at a knight.  The Cherry Tree Carol is about an old man named Joseph and Mary, who is a biblical reference, and Mary is with child and asks for cherries and how her son will predict how humanity will behave.  The Unquiet Grave, which is about a young man's true love.  Max has his own poetry, from 15 years ago, that he's just discovered which he's getting ready to edit and put together.  For more on Creative Actors Lab, check our website, www.creativeactorslab.com [https://www.creativeactorslab.com/]. You can always find us at our Instagram page, @creative_actors_lab [https://www.instagram.com/creative_actors_lab/], Facebook page, @CreativeActorsLab [https://www.facebook.com/CreativeActorsLab], Linked-In - Creative Actors Lab [https://www.linkedin.com/company/81494945/], and YouTube Channel -  @CreativeActorsLab  [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtAIAnRHDLFlHrd_-kK6NXw]. If you would like to support our work - this is our Patreon Page.  [https://www.patreon.com/creativeactorslab] Thanks so much for listening!

A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 18 - A Child's Garden of Verses

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2181385/fan_mail/new] Max talks about The Gutenberg Project and Robert Lewis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses, and the night that the lights went out in his neighborhood, and being tucked into bed with a white candle.  It includes the poems: * Summer in Bed * At the Seaside * Young Night Thought * Rain * Pirate Story * Foreign Lands * Windy Nights This is a great episode to share with a little one.  For more on Creative Actors Lab, check our website, www.creativeactorslab.com [https://www.creativeactorslab.com/]. You can always find us at our Instagram page, @creative_actors_lab [https://www.instagram.com/creative_actors_lab/], Facebook page, @CreativeActorsLab [https://www.facebook.com/CreativeActorsLab], Linked-In - Creative Actors Lab [https://www.linkedin.com/company/81494945/], and YouTube Channel -  @CreativeActorsLab  [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtAIAnRHDLFlHrd_-kK6NXw]. If you would like to support our work - this is our Patreon Page.  [https://www.patreon.com/creativeactorslab] Thanks so much for listening!

A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 16 - Oscar Wilde & The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2181385/fan_mail/new] In this episode, Max reads The Ballad of Reading Gaol, which Oscar Wilde wrote while he was in jail for two years for the crime of homosexuality, and it was inspired by Charles Thomas Wooldridge, a trooper in the Royal Horse Guards, who was imprisoned and executed for murdering his wife.  The poem highlights the brutality of the penal system, the mental suffering of inmates, and the hypocrisy of morality, featuring the famous line, "Yet each man kills the thing he loves".  Reading Gaol was a place of extreme emotional and physical suffering for Wilde, leading him to campaign for prison reform after his release.  For more on Creative Actors Lab, check our website, www.creativeactorslab.com [https://www.creativeactorslab.com/]. You can always find us at our Instagram page, @creative_actors_lab [https://www.instagram.com/creative_actors_lab/], Facebook page, @CreativeActorsLab [https://www.facebook.com/CreativeActorsLab], Linked-In - Creative Actors Lab [https://www.linkedin.com/company/81494945/], and YouTube Channel -  @CreativeActorsLab  [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtAIAnRHDLFlHrd_-kK6NXw]. If you would like to support our work - this is our Patreon Page.  [https://www.patreon.com/creativeactorslab] Thanks so much for listening!

A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 15 - The Origins of Acting

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2181385/fan_mail/new] Max discusses a poem he read many years ago, called the Saga of Li-Peng and Xua-Xua, which tells the story of the discovery of acting and theater. Li-Peng and Xua-Xua wait for a child without understanding the changes to her body and how it created distance. The child's name was Ling Ling-Lee, and the trio learns how to manage their humanity and the art of becoming human. For more on Creative Actors Lab, check our website, www.creativeactorslab.com [https://www.creativeactorslab.com/]. You can always find us at our Instagram page, @creative_actors_lab [https://www.instagram.com/creative_actors_lab/], Facebook page, @CreativeActorsLab [https://www.facebook.com/CreativeActorsLab], Linked-In - Creative Actors Lab [https://www.linkedin.com/company/81494945/], and YouTube Channel -  @CreativeActorsLab  [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtAIAnRHDLFlHrd_-kK6NXw]. If you would like to support our work - this is our Patreon Page.  [https://www.patreon.com/creativeactorslab] Thanks so much for listening!

A River Between Chaos and Zen - Ep. 14 - The Pencil Trick

Send us Fan Mail [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2181385/fan_mail/new] Max talks about his first blush with a voice class and how liberating it was.  He also talks about his love of Shakespeare and the old radio announcer exercise. He suggests learning some Shakespearean sonnets because they're short and easier to recite, and doing them with the pencil across your mouth, and then taking the pencil out and redoing the sonnet, and it's so much easier to do, and your diction gets better.  It's like taking weights off your legs when you want to run.  He reads Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? with a pencil in his mouth, along with Sonnet 52.  For more on Creative Actors Lab, check our website, www.creativeactorslab.com [https://www.creativeactorslab.com/]. You can always find us at our Instagram page, @creative_actors_lab [https://www.instagram.com/creative_actors_lab/], Facebook page, @CreativeActorsLab [https://www.facebook.com/CreativeActorsLab], Linked-In - Creative Actors Lab [https://www.linkedin.com/company/81494945/], and YouTube Channel -  @CreativeActorsLab  [https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtAIAnRHDLFlHrd_-kK6NXw]. If you would like to support our work - this is our Patreon Page.  [https://www.patreon.com/creativeactorslab] Thanks so much for listening!