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Why not?
Everyone wants quality.
:25:02
What kind of venue...
that is to say,
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thematically,
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um...
:25:10
What do I write about?
:25:13
Caught me trying to be fancy.
:25:15
Yeah, that's it, Bart.
:25:17
Well, that's a good question.
:25:19
Strange as it may seem, Charlie,
:25:21
I write about people like you--
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the working stiff,
the common man.
:25:26
Well, ain't that
a kick in the head.
:25:29
I guess it is, but in a way,
:25:31
that's exactly the point.
:25:33
There's a few people in New York--
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hopefully our numbers are growing--
:25:37
who feel we have an opportunity
:25:40
to forge something real
out of everyday experience,
:25:43
create a theater for the masses
:25:46
based on a few simple truths,
:25:48
not on some shopworn abstractions
about drama
:25:51
that don't hold true today.
:25:53
I don't guess this means much to you.
:25:56
Hell, I could tell you stories.
:25:58
And that's the point--
we all have stories.
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The hopes and dreams
of the common man
:26:05
are as noble as those of any king.
:26:07
The stuff of life--
:26:09
Why shouldn't it be
the stuff of theater?
:26:12
Why should that be
such a hard pill to swallow?
:26:15
Don't call it new theater, Charlie.
:26:17
Call it real theater.
:26:18
Call it our theater!
:26:20
I can see you feel
pretty strongly about it.
:26:24
I don't mean to get up
on my high horse,
:26:27
but why shouldn't we
look at ourselves up there?
:26:30
Who cares about
the fifth Earl of Bastrop
:26:32
and Lady Higginbottom
:26:34
and...
:26:35
and who killed Nigel Grinch-Gibbons?
:26:38
My butt's getting sore already.
:26:40
Exactly.
You understand what I'm saying
:26:42
a lot more than some
of these literary types
:26:45
because you're a real man.
:26:47
I could tell you some stories--
:26:50
Sure, you could,
:26:51
yet many writers insulate themselves
from the common man,
:26:54
from where they live,
:26:56
from where they trade
and fight and love
:26:58
and converse and--