Icarus Exult
by Eugie Foster

Apollo’s chariot so close I can feel the breath
    of his celestial steeds,
A fiery gale through my wings.
Brighter than a thousand candles,
The light a divine embrace.

I have awakened.

Far below, a tapestry spreads beneath me:
Mountains, forest, sea.
It is a prison discarded,
Gravity’s shackles tossed aside.

I am alive.

Faintly, like the memory of clay feet, heavy and clumsy,
I hear words of caution:
“Not so far, not so high!”
I shut my ears.

For I will touch the sun!

Icarus Theatre Collective: share the ascent with us.

“The Lesson” by Eugene Ionesco, translation by Donald Watson. Ionesco’s disturbing, absurdist masterpiece, brought to you by the Icarus Theatre Collective.

Directed by Max Lewendel with John Eastman, Cara Horgan, & Beth Newbery.

In this “antiplay” of verbal dominance, an old professor in a small village finds youth in a new pupil. Ionesco’s comic drama outlines a chilling string of events that carry this piece to its climactic finish.