Thursday, June 21, 2007

"Respectable"

Stumbling through Act One. Coming together beautifully. So fun to see all the good work that's been going on. Such interesting relationships and SO MANY great lines.

This is what Jack Tanner (author of "The Revolutionists Handbook") says to the conservative Roebuck Ramsden in the first act. Sound like people you know?

"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. Why, you're ashamed to buy my book, ashamed to read it: the only thing you're not ashamed of is to judge me for it without having read it."

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