Of the many bridges that are being built between Findhorn and the world around us, perhaps the most immediate and concrete is our new theatre...it provides a stable and somewhat permanent vehicle for the direct transmission of energies between performing artists from within the community and our audience, which consists to a large extent, of people from outside the community.
The prevailing rhythm in all of the performing arts at this time was toward working together in small units, all of which could later be blended together into a united whole for performance.
Writer, actor, musician and astrologer Ed Maxcy came to Findhorn in 1969. He worked in performing arts at Findhorn for many years and, drawing on his training in drama, he initiated the development of the Group Discovery games.
Writer, actor, musician and astrologer Ed Maxcy came to Findhorn in 1969 and is described in Eileen Caddy's Flight Into Freedom as "Eddie", the young American whose first job was to type out her daily
Findhorn Foundation Community performing arts pioneer Ed Maxcy, stage name Alexis, not only wrote, produced and directed the community’s first full-length musical The Genial Muse in 1971, but embodied the very essence of that Muse every hour of his community life.
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