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Spiritual themes explored through music, prose and poetry.

Ethical and religious discussion that examines some of the larger questions of life, taking a spiritual theme and exploring it through music, prose and poetry

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06/02/2010

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How in a play a character's journey can be traced through objectives and actions.

Presented by the actress Felicity Finch, who considers how in a play a character's journey can be traced through a coherent pattern of objectives and actions.

This week's edition of Something Understood is presented by the actress Felicity Finch, who considers how in a play a character's journey can be traced through a coherent pattern of objectives and actions. 

The author embeds signposts in the script, directing both actor and audience to pre-planned destinations. Real life, she feels, lacks such clarity. There's a confusion of crossroads, shortcuts, detours and dead-ends. 

Felicity draws on the teachings of actress Uta Hagen, a memoir by Dave Eggers and poems by Emily Dickinson and others, as well as music by Tom Waits, the band Free and Franz Liszt, as she considers goal-orientated lives and those that seem to be made up from moment to moment.

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