On Friday theatre group Rafiki performed a piece of poetry, movement and song. It's been done before at Ranga Shankara but it's since changed considerably, now embracing a guitar to replace the earlier drums, and also includes many new poems, including a lovely Langston Hughes called Dream Deferred and a powerful enactment by Anish Victor of Neruda's Poet's Obligation.
The crowd was a corporate one and after the performance, some people came up to talk to us. There were the usual questions, “How do you remember your lines?” “How many years have you been doing this for?” and so on. And then, one that suddenly came out of the blue and left me flummoxed: “Is it...” the person was groping for the perfect word, “spiritual?”
