FESTIVAL

theatre/PREVIEW RVICTOR NEODERO, umes AND BUT THE OTHER VOICE wAs SILENT ANDTHE NOTsE OF MTERs GENTLMNNTCTDREENJAHTN. sWEPT ME

GRANT MORRISON '5 NEOBERGNEUBERGJHE POET. bACK INTO THE WORLD, AND I LAYASLEEP ON AHIIISIDE

BEARING FOR EVERMORE THE HEART OF A GODDESS.

AND THE BRAIN 0FAMAN,AND THE wmos OF THE MORNING

CLTwED BY THE sHEARs OF THE SILENCE; so MUST lyWANDER LONEL ,

NOR RNow or THE UGHT TILL | ENTER INTO THE DARRNEss.

DEPRAVITY

The illustrator J. Smith pays tribute to the imagination of GRANT MORRISON (writer ofcomic books such as Askham Asylum), whose new play is being presented by Edinburgh’s OXYGEN HOUSE. Depravity depicts the psychiatric treatment of Aleister Crowley’s intimate magical associate, Victor Neuberg, by Dr Edward Thomas Jensen.

* YOU WERE HIS DISCIPLE .YOU SUFFERED AT HIS HANDS.

HE WAS THE MOST BRILUANT MAN IHADEVER ENCOUNTERED. CROWLEY SAWIN MY MELANCHOLY A FORESHADONING OF MY INITIATION AS AN EXEMPT ADEPT.A MAGICIAN,FREED AT LAST FROM THE KARMIC WHEEL OF BIRTH AND DEATH.

HE WAS WRONG .THERE ARE THOSE OF US WHO NEVER ESCAPE .THERE ARE THOSE OF US WHO REMAIN PINNED TO

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Depravity (Fringe) Oxygen House, The Netherbow (Venue30) 16 Aug—l Sept, 11.30pm £4.50 (£3).

I SET OUT IN SEARCH OFREALMS OF SHINING LIGHT. INSTEAD , I FOUND THE SPUNTERED FLOORBOARDS OF A PARIS BOARDING HOUSE AND THE SPOTTY BUTTOCKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY.

' A DEPRAVITY,DOCTOR,Ts THE sTATE OF MORAL CORRUPTION AND I HAD DECOME THE HEAD OF THAT sTATE . IN MY sEARcH FOR SPIRITUAL WA HAD FOUND ONLY THE LOWEST DEPRAVITY.

The List 17— 23 August 199011