The Alan Sondheim Mail Archive

June 30, 2010


Rare Giant Predatory Stink-Bug Alcaeorrhynchus grandis found in our 
Brooklyn Apartment! Photos not great quality but identification ABSOLUTELY 
CERTAIN! YAY!

For Tom Zummer!

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A NEW PLAY FROM OLD

THE THEATER: Roar roar roar. You're inside me just like an avatar.

Jennifer, Julu, and Nikuko applaud.
Julu: Oh oh, that is so awful! This is such an awful thing!
Julu: Oh dearest us! How awful is Trotsky! Something must be done and now!
Jennifer: Julu's corpse is here before us: Poor, poor Julu!
Jennifer: Thank you, Julu.
Julu sits down.
Julu: Thank you.
Julu: We say we are the players. We say we are broken into scenes.
Julu: Oh that is so good, we will drag down the renegades!
Julu stands: It is wonderful that we live in such a time...
Julu: We say we are the players.
Jennifer says: Julu is in 400,000 pieces.
Jennifer says: Julu piece 381,924 is addressing me.
Piece 381,924 says: Hello Julu, come in Julu.
Jennifer says: You are Julu-Julu; you have come in.
Piece 381,924 says: This is one thing Julu.
Jennifer says: This is Jennifer, Julu piece 381,924.

Jennifer, Julu, and Nikuko applaud.
Nikuko: Oh! Woe! Attacks from within and without!
Nikuko stands: I wish to introduce Jennifer.
Jennifer: Thank you, Nikuko.
Nikuko sits: You have been my guide for so many years, Jennifer.
Jennifer: Community is the foundation of all life, Nikuko.
Nikuko: Thank you, Jennifer.
Nikuko: Oh! Woe! Attacks from within and without!
Nikuko: This is a wonderful play, Ladies and Gentlemen.
Nikuko stands: I wish to introduce Jennifer.
Jennifer: Thank you, Nikuko.
Nikuko sits: You have been my guide for so many years, Jennifer.
Jennifer: Community is the foundation of all life, Nikuko.
Nikuko: Thank you, Jennifer.

Nikuko says: But you must do one thing for me doctor.
Nikuko says: You must remove your clothing.
Nikuko says:: I will wear my tutu.
Nikuko pirouettes with three cameras and there are sfx and a text.
Nude Nikuko sitting on nude Doctor Leopold Konninger with sfx.
Hortatorical segments with Nikuko's voice describing her sfx.
Nikuko pirouettes in a transparent skirt for the Doctor.
Nikuko and Doctor Leopold Konninger dance.
Nikuko in open kimono mouthing AAAAH, Shinto Inari Kitsune!
Nikuko in tutu and the Male Ballet Dancer perform a Musical Number.
A Doodah song accompanying a half-naked Nikuko and fully naked Doctor.
Nikuko dances strangely by herself on the right-hand side.
Nikuko lies exhausted on a blanket wearing a pink tutu.

Jennifer: I am learning so very hard here.
Jennifer: Oh! Oh! Oh! Attacks from every side!
Jennifer stands: I wish to introduce THE PRESIDENT.
Nikuko stands: I wish to introduce Jennifer.
Jennifer nods, remains standing.
Jennifer: Thank you, Nikuko.
Jennifer shuffles.
Jennifer: Thank you as well, Alan.

Jennifer: I see quite well, thanks to you.
Jennifer: I am learning so very hard here.
Jennifer: Oh! Oh! Oh! Attacks from every side!
Jennifer: But oh Great Leader, what is to be done?

Julu: Excellent. And this is what I want you to do, Alan.
Alan: This is excellent, and I will do my very best.
Alan: I see how this goes. This is amazing.
Alan sits down.
Jennifer: Thank you as well, Alan.

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