A Play without Words: A Play with Words: An Aborted Play.
Another Question w/o an Answer: Identity Characters T. S. Eliot (caricature) Friedrich Dürrenmatt (caricature) Mr. Anonumos (teacher) Teen of Rhetoric (hypothetical student) Two parrots (human-sized birds) Numerous extras There is no curtain (how could there be), but as the lights go from nil to dim a caricature of T. S. Eliot appears and quotes the real Eliot (commenting on a production of Stravinsky’s ballet Le Sacre du printemps ). Eliot: Whether Stravinsky’s music be permanent or ephemeral I do not know; but it did seem to transform the rhythm of the steppes into the scream of the motor horn, the rattle of the machinery, the grind of wheels, the beating of iron and steel, the roar of the underground railway, and the other barbaric cries of modern life; and to transform these despairing noises into music. While Eliot is finishing his lines, and before he turns to exit the stage, another actor awkwardly squeezes out of the prompter’s box: he is a caricature of Fried...