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Eastern/Western Meat Lessons By Stephen Mosblech Featuring adaptations from the book &especially from Samuel 1 Eastern/Western Meat Lessons premiered July 14, 2009 at StudioX in New York. It was directed-designed by Stephen Mosblech. With the following cast:
The PERSONS LEO >>>>>>>>>>>>> Jay Smith MARIE >>>>>>>>>>>>> Sarah Dahlen SAMUEL >>>>>>>>>>>>> Danny Snelson ATTENDANT >>>>>>>>>>>>> Arthur Burkle DEEP VOICE [voice of] >>>>>>>>> Richard Foreman FEMALE VOICE [voice of] >>>>>>>>>>> Juliana Francis-Kelly Sound Design: Greta Byrum Videographer: Eduardo Band NOTE: BOLD text excerpted from Samuel I CHPTR 6 of No-Body: a novel in parts by Richard Foreman LOCATION: A country road a stroll from the city. Pasture of astroturf center stage and blazing flat orange sunset. Bardo tube off in right corner collecting dust. +++ DEEP VOICE: This has a lot to do with Samuel This has a lot to do with Samuel This has a lot to do with Samuel LEO: Fuck me. Shit for brains. MARIE: No. I just pissed myself. No. LEO: OR Tell me shit-head who isn't dead now who didn't die? SAMUEL: Experience is limitless that is Samuel entered the milky abyss For an instant perhaps: MARIE: No. I have indigestion. I have never been so sick in my life Samuel with worry. ATTENDANT: What good does that do. LEO: I know I have loved too much MARIE: No. LEO: What. MARIE: Wait wait since my head is flat I forgot to say get that rock off stage since it is shining but it had existed Pancakes.
LEO: We all dreamed it together. Wheee! ATTENDANT: We all dreamed it together. MARIE: We all dreamed it together. FEMALE VOICE: Thank you. Thank You. DRONE +++ SCENE II DEEP VOICE: This has a lot to do with Samuel. This has a lot to do with Samuel. LEO: Ach Marie its true - the world is indigestible In my other hand at this instant in my hand elevating a glass of santorum MARIE: 1 I don't have legs, Samuel 2 nothing moves plus I can't pin point my legs. LEO: Does it - this so called no outer and inner moving - Marie frighten you. MARIE: No. LEO: Oh MARIE from in this body, the size of the universe you couldn't at this instant gonna be picturing the two mummum-Father degenerations upon the wall that abducted Samuel at birth unless Samuel shat god-forbid my brains on the floor at lunch yesterday and it wasn't a rock. SAMUEL: I didn't do it. LEO: Is your brain perhaps the color orange.
SAMUEL: I didn't do it. MARIE: Oh. Oh.
LEO: Discover, Marie Where a releasement When I elevate my hand Spurted from the back of my skull. MARIE: Careful Samuel your teeth'll fall out.
FEMALE VOICE: Thank You. Thank you SAMUEL: Two things were available to Samuel. The city, through which he walked. The language - that was not walked through but did manipulate his steps, his direction, his speed.
DRONE +++ SCENE III DEEP VOICE: This has a lot to do with Samuel This has a lot to do with Samuel ATTENDANT: A second object. SAMUEL: Is it my intense demeanor that should convince you to take each of my ideas seriously. No you see there's nothing intense about me. LEO: Is it my intense demeanor that should convince you to take each of my ideas seriously. No you see there's nothing intense about me. MARIE: What. What. Wait. LEO: The Faces. MARIE: No. Look. Samuel entered the milky abyss ATTENDANT: Again again again again MARIE: Samuel is chasing me through the streets with a knife. I keep trying to stand but I. keep. Sitting down. LEO: Oh look. nothing to say about that ie expanse of wings, Cloudlessness suddenly my body feels heavy maybe ill lift myself up from sloth and d-pression the only way how. ATTENDANT: I didn't do it. I didn't do it - (sings) tomorrow. SAMUEL: You Started this Marie MARIE: Oh no Samuel, you started this SAMUEL: How MARIE: You wanted it to happen Samuel Your life as it will be ATTENDANT: Like lightning LEO: But at that instant a fire alarm bell was ringing in the distance MARIE: Chinee Japanee let’s go to Paris LEO: When I look at the city with my hands from above FEMALE VOICE: Thank you. SAMUEL: You know what I'm doing? I'm standing in front of an open window and the curtains blow and I'm not moving just like that. MARIE: Eureka Eureka |
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