A Play, A Trinity

The setting was idyllic. After eating, swimming and conversing at the goodbye picnic at the Mt St Francis convent in Ringwood, NJ, in July, we did a silent T’ai Chi Chih practice. I felt the cool grass under my feet, heard birds chirping and followed the movements of my teachers. Imagine my surprise when in the middle of this practice an entire short play was revealed to me. I wrote the entire play the next day and two other plays have followed to make a trinity. (I should mention I am an actor and a playwright. But playwriting does not come easily to me. But that day it did.) So I have made a promise to myself that no matter what, I will do TCC everyday – whether it be an entire practice or one movement.