Attempting to capture the Tao of Philip Glass

The actor and director Phelim McDermott certainly knows how to tell a story and put on a show, but did the magnificent Tao of Glass have a message or an argument? Mildly stunned after the performance, I tried to capture some of what I had seen, heard, and experienced as I travelled home on the tube. I knew that most would disappear, but I wanted to capture as much as I could. Here’s my list: Maurice Sendak In the Night Kitchen, naked, penis, Holocaust, first sexual experience Essence consensus reality Coma: get to them ease your death Oldest creation myth Rigveda Passion for theatre Tao Te Ching Lao Tzu Piano clarinet violin Locked in a cupboard Puppetry Philip Glass music a river Mending things with gold Kintsugi Glass coffee table £1000 smashed Followed Philip Glass and discovered he eats sushi I read somewhere that the performance has ten sections, and that may be right, but I seem to have remembered more than ten. The way I think of the performance now is that it’s wonderful…