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I want to read
you from the thing

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I'm working on now, which is
a work called Don't Be Afraid.

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I only have 10 minutes left.

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It's called A Thousand
Avant-Garde Plays or Scenes

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and Characters Without End.

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And here's my idea, which is
too late for you to steal.

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Though I have several ideas.

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One is, most plays simply
repeat the same thing

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for 2 and 1/2 hours.

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It could be gotten
across in two minutes.

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Another idea, a
completely different idea,

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that almost anything
that's done on stage

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can be made interesting.

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A third idea, perhaps
a more serious one,

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is that there's a tremendous
amount of energy and excitement

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and talent, even genius,
in the theater now,

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none of it having anything
to do with language.

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It all has to do with ways
of acting and music and dance

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and architecture and
all kinds of things.

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So it seemed about time
to change all of that.

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A crazy dream indeed since--

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there actually, I do
have a company who

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plans to put on my 1,000 plays.

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But we're starting
soon in rehearsal.

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But there are actually
only 120 of them.

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These plays can be imagined--

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I'm going to read them
quickly, to be sure.

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They can take a long-- each
one can take a long time,

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or they can take a short time.

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I plan for a lot of
them to have music

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and probably they'll
have sets by painters

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if I'm lucky, but anyway.

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The first is called
"Time and His Trumpet."

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"Enter Tommy Time
with a trumpet.

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Time: whenever I blow
this horn, things change,

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and they are changing
all the time.

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This time I am taking out
to talk to you is no time,

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does not exist in time.

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You are not changing, you
are not growing older,

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your love stays the same.

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It is a privileged moment.

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But when I start to
blow, it will be time,

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and you will be changing again.

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"Man: but my love
stays the same.

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Time: that is because it
is changing with time.

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Man: it just stopped.

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Time: because I stopped playing.

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Woman: oh, play again.

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Man: play, Tommy Time.

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Without time, I feel nothing.

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Woman: so that's what that
noise was we heard all the time.

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"Man: the noise of change.

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Tommy Time: or of faithfulness,
which also lives in time."

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I'm reading these
a little too fast.

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Anyway--