“While elk, deer, cattle, and sheep use sagebrush as a nutritional forage in the winter, terpenes [a compound in sagebrush that is toxic in high dosage] limit their intake of sagebrush in accord with the amount of terpenes these herbivores can detoxify and eliminate from their bodies” (Provenza 2018:58).
Enough of the right poison, at the right time can be nourishing. A week of rehearsal observation at The Street Theatre, on Childers Street, felt both like poison but also nutritious.
If you, writer, see an opportunity for rehearsal observation, snap it up. It just might feed you over a winter.
Provenza, F. 2018. Nourishment. Vermont: Chelsea Green.
Rehearsal observation was for In His Words: Voices of Fatherhood. Created by Creswick (Liam Budge). Performed by the creator, Brett Williams, Ben Hauptman, James Hauptman, and Chris Pound. In addition to direction from The Street’s Caroline Stacey, Brittany Myers, Antony Hateley, Imogen Keen and Kimmo Vennonen.
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