I want to read you from the thing
I'm working on now, which is a work called Don't Be Afraid.
I only have 10 minutes left.
It's called A Thousand Avant-Garde Plays or Scenes
and Characters Without End.
And here's my idea, which is too late for you to steal.
Though I have several ideas.
One is, most plays simply repeat the same thing
for 2 and 1/2 hours.
It could be gotten across in two minutes.
Another idea, a completely different idea,
that almost anything that's done on stage
can be made interesting.
A third idea, perhaps a more serious one,
is that there's a tremendous amount of energy and excitement
and talent, even genius, in the theater now,
none of it having anything to do with language.
It all has to do with ways of acting and music and dance
and architecture and all kinds of things.
So it seemed about time to change all of that.
A crazy dream indeed since--
there actually, I do have a company who
plans to put on my 1,000 plays.
But we're starting soon in rehearsal.
But there are actually only 120 of them.
These plays can be imagined--
I'm going to read them quickly, to be sure.
They can take a long-- each one can take a long time,
or they can take a short time.
I plan for a lot of them to have music
and probably they'll have sets by painters
if I'm lucky, but anyway.
The first is called "Time and His Trumpet."
"Enter Tommy Time with a trumpet.
Time: whenever I blow this horn, things change,
and they are changing all the time.
This time I am taking out to talk to you is no time,
does not exist in time.
You are not changing, you are not growing older,
your love stays the same.
It is a privileged moment.
But when I start to blow, it will be time,
and you will be changing again.
"Man: but my love stays the same.
Time: that is because it is changing with time.
Man: it just stopped.
Time: because I stopped playing.
Woman: oh, play again.
Man: play, Tommy Time.
Without time, I feel nothing.
Woman: so that's what that noise was we heard all the time.
"Man: the noise of change.
Tommy Time: or of faithfulness, which also lives in time."
I'm reading these a little too fast.
Anyway--