ABSTRACT
The theater, normally chock-full of heat and passion, generally concerns itself with conflict, confrontation and defiance. A drama typically unfolds in a symphonic interplay of opposing forces and actions in which characters have an investment in situations for which they venture their lives and their beliefs as well as their moral and political choices. Emotion and heat seal the experience and create lasting memories. With passion, these memories, created in the brain in the heat of experience, become stable and in turn generate personal morals and ethics. Passion is engendered not by feeling or emotion, but rather by action. Taking a risk or hazarding one's life for moral or political choices creates the kind of heat that generates strong passions. The act of engagement creates heat. Physical practice creates heat. Meeting challenging obstacles creates heat. Practicing commitment and investment generates heat. Action arising from authentic curiosity produces heat. The heat of human contact governed the experience.
