Tuesday 18 September 2007

Where it is

2.36pm

I think this is crucial. This is about knowing the text and you predicting what is going to happen. But it doesn't really happen in the same tense. Tim says 'you wanted me to do this...' before you do it. We're stuck in the future of the script. And the future of the performance. In the knowledge of the history of the making. Go back. You're suspended on a stool. I can't remember where it is. 'There is a bit. I can't remember where it is. You wanted me to take my clothes off and stand on a stool.' But we can't remember where it is. It could be where it is on the page. Where it is in the script. Where the stool is on the stage. Where the image of the stool is. Abu Graib or Guantanomo Bay. But we can't remember where it is. On the bus today Tim goes 'Oh my god' about a story in the newspaper. He tells us about the story. Mole asks 'Where is it?'. Tim says 'On page 11'. Mole says 'No - where in the world?'.

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