Not an Angry Ape
Shakespeare’s Vision of Consciousness
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Not an Angry Ape explores Shakespeare’s vision of consciousness through both the form and content that creates the performative context. The performance suggests that Shakespeare provides enough evidence in his plays of a radical vision of consciousness, which is the intrinsically nondual substratum of awareness pointed to by all the great spiritual traditions. Generally, human beings overlook this natural ‘essence’ in favour of the changing contents of consciousness, which are merely ‘such stuff as dreams’. And the major clue to Shakespeare’s vision is the performance event itself; a compelling story stills the thinking mind to foreground mindful awareness, the what is of the here-and-now, where the perceiver and perceived, unobstructed by any false duality, collapse into the simplicity of seeing. This seeing is the ultimate consciousness.
On Saturday 28 May 2011, 8pm, LPAC Studio 1