Two Short Plays

Two Short Plays: Magnets and Rhododendrons, and The Dream Play

The Deepest and most tender feelings are of the human heart. I have deepened to such a feeling, my heart and my relationships to specials people in my life thereby transformed. From this time hence my deepest thoughts have been…thoughts of heart-warmth and heart-light. Such thoughts and such a feeling are expressed in this play, my first. They are felt by the characters…. This is conveyed in scenes of the paly in conversations and other interactions. Thus Magnets and Rhododendrons is necessarily dear to me.

Magnets and Rhododendrons is most human and can this touch human hearts, all those who see the play on stage or who read it in printed form who can, by way of the power of imagination, bee stirred by an inwardness of heart feeling.

The images in the scenes of The Dream Play played out before the audience and the mind’s eye of the reader may evoke unusual or new intuitions as a living painting whose theme is outside everyday experience. The play has the power to make impressions on the viewer or reader who actively participates in the scenes that stir something of a higher spiritual quality within the soul. This is owing to the fact that I wrote the play as I imagined the stage with the players as a dream of significance I might have had that left an indelible impression on my soul such that it stayed with me into my waking life.

About the Author

Alan Lindgren is an expert on the four temperaments. He has an artistic soul and a background in Waldorf education as a child and anthroposophy as an adult. He has devoted his working life to human co-Creation and adult self-education for decades. He is a gifted and much-published poet, fiction writer, playwright, librettist, essayist, and biographer. His fiction, articles, and poetry have appeared in Biodynamics, a publication of the Bio-Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association, Inc., The Correspondence, newsletter of the Central Region of the Anthroposophical Society in America, and Highland Hall Waldorf School’s newsletter Rhythms.