Transcript from conversation between Charlotte and Max on February 23, 2010.In Caseus, over some Boucheron, Charlotte is writing in a book. Scriabin’s “Mysterium” is playing in the background.
MAX:
You can’t do that! efface.
CHARLOTTE:
What? (Hi!)
MAX:
Starting in media res is a total XXXXXXX.
CHARLOTTE:
You did it not me. (Can I tell you a secret?)
MAX:
It shows that you are not actually XXXXX building characters and
a compelling emotional landscape of their objectives and
obstacles. wipe out.
CHARLOTTE:
Yeah, this whole exercise is just a bad idea. I despise writing about
writing, or rather, reading writing about writing. (This is a stage
direction.)
MAX:
The grammar will be clear in the written text. expunge.
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CHARLOTTE:
Is clear? (So the audience cannot hear it being spoken allowed, but I
guess it could be coloring the actresses’ performance, if she is any
good, I guess, but,wait, ok…)
MAX:
Is clear. expunge.
A bomb goes off in Cambodia in forty years earlier; they feel it in the
soles of their feet.
CHARLOTTE:
XXXX! I have also used the XXXXXXXX awful Victorian device of
found text. (I am also Charlotte, but the writer Charlotte, the meta-
Charlotte.)
MAX:
So, are they watching us leaning over a script you are writing that
defines our actions in leaning over the script? scratch out.
CHARLOTTE:
I Does that count as determinism? I don’t know what they have in their projected
senses. XXXX! It is idiotic to posit a theatrical scene to be read as
visual text. (But not really because this language is cadenced and
cute in a way that she totally isn’t.)
MAX:
Closet Dd(?)ramas are a totally valid form. Bloom would probably
have us believe that all of Shakespeare should be read not
performed. obliterate.
CHARLOTTE:
But look, I can do things totally XXXXXX for the stage. (Wait, but
do you want to know the secret?)
Charlotte blinks in and out of existence three times.
MAX:
You can’t do that! (They can do it in Control Group XXXXXXX it!)
CHARLOTTE:
As long as they out there can still suspend disbelief in the little
XXXXXXXX world they are creating then it is allowed. I can even
go back retroactively and edit efface the text that had defined us
to this point. erase. (‘Cause I have to be really careful of protecting
my image around here.)
MAX:
And only that which script convention requires reading allowed
will be expressed to the audience that the reader of a play also sub
liminally projects. He says normatively you’re not broken if you don’t do this.
CHARLOTTE:
Sure. It could also be seen as a tautologically defined piece of
theater, but that is also a facile solution. (… Haha, aren’t I a tease?)
MAX:
Wait, so what does it mean?
CHARLOTTE:
It is a test, buddy. (This is all totally empty and meaningless!)
Charlotte writes the words “Exeunt.”
Charlotte writes the words “Exeunt.”
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