First I watched
Life Jacket by Caridad Svich
The magic you can create
With a few wooden boxes
And a piece of rope
Focused lighting
And a few sound effects
The devastation of the text
Poetry in action

And in the evening I watched
Kiss by Guillermo Calderón
The heightened melodrama of the first act
The astonishing gestures of the
Physicalized subtext
The second act “talkback”
Talk back
Assert
Provide context
A “kiss” is not a kiss when --
The heightened realism of the third act
The way the set fell away
The way the furniture floated

When you see a play
That touches your soul and
Makes you see the world
In a different light
In a new way
With more compassion
More understanding
How it lights your soul on fire.