:24:00
What kind of venue...
that is to say,
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thematically,
:24:06
um...
:24:08
What do I write about?
:24:11
Caught me trying to be fancy.
:24:14
Yeah, that's it, Bart.
:24:15
Well, that's a good question.
:24:17
Strange as it may seem, Charlie,
:24:19
I write about people like you...
:24:22
the working stiff,
the common man.
:24:24
Well, ain't that
a kick in the head.
:24:26
I guess it is, but in a way,
:24:29
that's exactly the point.
:24:30
There's a few people in New York...
:24:33
hopefully our numbers are growing...
:24:35
who feel we have an opportunity
:24:37
to forge something real
out of everyday experience,
:24:40
create a theater for the masses
:24:43
based on a few simple truths,
:24:45
not on some shopworn abstractions
about drama
:24:47
that don't hold true today.
:24:50
I don't guess this means much to you.
:24:52
Hell, I could tell you stories.
:24:55
And that's the point...
we all have stories.
:24:57
The hopes and dreams
of the common man
:25:01
are as noble as those of any king.
:25:03
The stuff of life...
:25:05
Why shouldn't it be
the stuff of theater?
:25:07
Why should that be
such a hard pill to swallow?
:25:10
Don't call it new theater, Charlie.
:25:13
Call it real theater.
:25:14
Call it our theater!
:25:16
I can see you feel
pretty strongly about it.
:25:19
I don't mean to get up
on my high horse,
:25:22
but why shouldn't we
look at ourselves up there?
:25:25
Who cares about
the fifth Earl of Bastrop
:25:27
and Lady Higginbottom
:25:29
and...
:25:30
and who killed Nigel Grinch-Gibbons?
:25:33
My butt's getting sore already.
:25:35
Exactly.
You understand what I'm saying
:25:37
a lot more than some
of these literary types
:25:40
because you're a real man.
:25:41
I could tell you some stories...
:25:44
Sure, you could,
:25:45
yet many writers insulate themselves
from the common man,
:25:48
from where they live,
:25:50
from where they trade
and fight and love
:25:52
and converse and...
:25:54
and...
:25:57
So, naturally, their work suffers
:25:58
and regresses into
empty formalism and...