WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.750 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:03.810 align:middle line:90% This play is called Cook. 00:00:03.810 --> 00:00:07.675 align:middle line:84% It's the City of Chengdu, which is to the north of Beijing. 00:00:07.675 --> 00:00:09.300 align:middle line:84% I happened to be in the city when I was 00:00:09.300 --> 00:00:10.592 align:middle line:90% in China a couple of years ago. 00:00:10.592 --> 00:00:14.700 align:middle line:84% And there's not much to see in Chengdu, but at night anyway, 00:00:14.700 --> 00:00:15.720 align:middle line:90% not if you're American. 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:17.430 align:middle line:84% I mean, maybe if you're Chinese, you know what to look for, 00:00:17.430 --> 00:00:19.950 align:middle line:84% but the city is very misty and full of smoke. 00:00:19.950 --> 00:00:22.320 align:middle line:84% And the main thing you see in the street at night 00:00:22.320 --> 00:00:24.930 align:middle line:84% is a lot of people running around in a cook's clothing, 00:00:24.930 --> 00:00:26.460 align:middle line:90% carrying tureens. 00:00:26.460 --> 00:00:30.060 align:middle line:84% And I saw this young woman, all dressed up as a-- 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:32.468 align:middle line:84% she could only be about 16 or 17 years old, 00:00:32.468 --> 00:00:35.010 align:middle line:84% with a big cook's hat and she kept running around the street. 00:00:35.010 --> 00:00:38.070 align:middle line:84% I kept seeing her, and she touched me very much. 00:00:38.070 --> 00:00:41.520 align:middle line:84% And she's sort of the heroine of my 1,000 plays actually. 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:43.350 align:middle line:90% She appears a lot on-- 00:00:43.350 --> 00:00:44.880 align:middle line:90% this is her first appearance. 00:00:44.880 --> 00:00:47.160 align:middle line:84% The City of Chengdu, early evening. 00:00:47.160 --> 00:00:49.680 align:middle line:84% Cook is a young woman dressed all in white cook's clothing 00:00:49.680 --> 00:00:50.520 align:middle line:90% with a hat. 00:00:50.520 --> 00:00:52.800 align:middle line:90% Cook: I am the cook. 00:00:52.800 --> 00:00:56.130 align:middle line:84% I am racing through the streets of Chengdu, with my rice bowl 00:00:56.130 --> 00:01:00.240 align:middle line:84% and in my apron all of white and in my cooking hat of white. 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:02.610 align:middle line:84% My broad, my smiling peasant face 00:01:02.610 --> 00:01:06.330 align:middle line:84% does cause alarm by winning charm to all the masculine cook 00:01:06.330 --> 00:01:07.020 align:middle line:90% around. 00:01:07.020 --> 00:01:11.100 align:middle line:84% I don't think, because this is China, land of think 00:01:11.100 --> 00:01:13.350 align:middle line:90% to work and always busy. 00:01:13.350 --> 00:01:16.380 align:middle line:84% Cook who runs around, shall find a young fellow to her mind 00:01:16.380 --> 00:01:17.940 align:middle line:90% when comes time for this. 00:01:17.940 --> 00:01:21.660 align:middle line:84% Meanwhile with Cook run around, no flirting. 00:01:21.660 --> 00:01:24.930 align:middle line:84% And no go to the paper store, until start of tomorrow day. 00:01:24.930 --> 00:01:28.260 align:middle line:84% And now go to the wedding store, Cook shall not go away. 00:01:28.260 --> 00:01:29.730 align:middle line:90% Cook runs through town. 00:01:29.730 --> 00:01:33.510 align:middle line:84% I am running, no one sees me in despair. 00:01:33.510 --> 00:01:36.120 align:middle line:90% None to feel that I am there. 00:01:36.120 --> 00:01:40.050 align:middle line:84% Cook running through town, in no way this day holiday. 00:01:40.050 --> 00:01:42.570 align:middle line:84% An American speaks to her, Brad Garks. 00:01:42.570 --> 00:01:46.680 align:middle line:84% Brad says, in USA, my country, we have holiday parts 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:48.240 align:middle line:90% in every day of the year. 00:01:48.240 --> 00:01:50.700 align:middle line:84% Vast urban agglomeration spell out I 00:01:50.700 --> 00:01:52.920 align:middle line:90% love yous to dead green parks. 00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:56.580 align:middle line:84% Oh faithful cook, into my arms now haste. 00:01:56.580 --> 00:01:59.730 align:middle line:84% Cook, you will not like me, because I 00:01:59.730 --> 00:02:02.940 align:middle line:84% am too much atmosphere of cook and not woman lady. 00:02:02.940 --> 00:02:04.080 align:middle line:90% Blad, goodbye. 00:02:04.080 --> 00:02:07.290 align:middle line:90% 00:02:07.290 --> 00:02:13.160 align:middle line:84% They get together later on maybe.