Seascape
by Edward Albee

Directed and Designed by Lon Winston






CAST

Sarah Kennedy Roth. . . . . . . . . .Nancy
Richard Lyon. . . . . . . . . . . . . Charlie
Valerie Haugen. . . . . . . . . . . . . Sarah
Michael Miller. . . . . . . . . . . . . .Leslie


Synchronicity and the Collective Unconscious Carl Jung (1875-1961)

Synchronicity is an explanatory principle; it explains "meaningful coincidences" such as a beetle flying into his room while a patient was describing a dream about a scarab. Jung’s notion of synchronicity is that there is an acausal principle that links events having a similar meaning by their coincidence in time rather than sequentially. He claimed that there is a synchrony between the mind and the phenomenal world of perception.

If you think of all the pairs of things that can happen in a person's lifetime, and add to that our very versatile ability of finding meaningful connections between things, it then seems likely that most of us will experience many meaningful coincidences. The coincidences are predictable but we are the ones who give them meaning.





Synchronicity provides access to the archetypes, which are located in the collective unconscious and are characterized by being universal mental predispositions not grounded in experience. Jung believed that the archetypes arise spontaneously in the mind, especially in times of crisis. It opens the door of the collective unconscious and lets out an archetype to reveal some deep truth hidden from ordinary consciousness.







Why Are We So Drawn To The Ocean?
Perhaps because this soup is such an integral part of our ancient beginnings, our bodies closely reflect it -- from the saline liquid of our life's blood to the rhythm of our breath. Nearly every human cell has a connection to some ocean-borne organism or feature. Oceans provide bountiful textures for our lives -- food for our bodies, rhythm for our souls, dynamics that reflect our moods, from tempest to calm. The ocean gives us water that nourishes the land we live on, and offers us a place to find solace from the noise of the transformed territories that most of us call home. Sound gives us a unique way to journey from the shore, going below the surface and back again, experiencing feelings of continuous transformation as we move from land to water, visualizing images without ever opening our eyes.
...Bernie Krause (Producer of Seascape’s Ocean Sounds)






















Lon Winston, Artistic Director
Thunder River Theatre Company

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