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INTERVIEWER
You don’t seem to have much regard for the New York theater audience.
SHAW
Oh, but I do. I have a fine play in mind I’ll write for them someday. The curtain slides up on a stage bare except for a machine gun facing the audience. Then after a pause in which the audience is given time to rustle their paper bags and their programs, wheeze and cough and settle in their seats, the actor enters. He’s a tall man dressed in evening clothes. He comes downstage to the footlights and, after a little bow, smiles charmingly at the audience, giving them more time to mumble and rustle and cough and whisper and settle in their seats. Then he walks upstage, adjusts the machine gun, and blasts them.
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| Anton Chekhov, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Graham Greene, Ernest Hemingway, Aldous Huxley, Pearl Buck, F. Scott Fitzgerald, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, François Mauriac, Herman Melville, Marcel Proust, Charles-Augustin Saint-Beuve, William Shakespeare, Robert Sherwood, Stendhal, Leo Tolstoy, Peter Viertel |
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