ABSTRACT
The moment is a word that finds itself the subject of endless classes and rehearsals. Theatre is particularly interested in and seems to thrive on when nows activate our intentional self and become a string of moments that culminate into an unfolding. Nows like words are independent of one another, and yet can link together to make meaning. Each stage of a moment’s tripartite structure is made up of a now or swarm of nows. The nows that make up an intentional mid-point of a moment can swell to the breaking point, before they lead to the nows of an actual action or set of actions. In the Middle Ages the reckoning of a moment was literally “a tenth part of a point—the fortieth or fiftieth part of an hour.” A swarm of nows coalesces into moments that grow into an unfolding.
