Intermission
a creative coffee break from writing the play

Robert Patrick
Kilgore, Texas, USA
September 27, 1937

And it’s nineteen seventy-four. Valentine’s Day, nineteen hundred, seventy, and four. That’s how many panhandlers there are on Third Avenue, how many burned-out bulbs there are on Broadway, and how many of these poisonous drinks I’ve put on the tab already this afternoon.

Sparger, Kennedy’s Children, p.12
by Robert Patrick

Marsha Norman
September 21, 1947
Louisville, Kentucky

And someone else
who is
unknown to us.

When a thing is wick it has a light around it.
Maybe not a light you can see.
But hiding down below a spark’s asleep inside it,
Just waiting for the right time to be seen.

You clear away the dead parts
so the tender buds can form.
Loosen up the earth and
Let the roots get warm.
Let the roots get warm.

Dickon, The Secret Garden, p.74
Book and Lyrics by Marsha Norman

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Sonia Sanchez
Birmingham, Alabama, USA
September 9, 1934

Wait for what my man? Wait for you to find out what’s happening? It’s not hard to see. We’re moving the people out—out into the cool breezes of the street—is that so difficult to understand?

Charles, The Bronx is Next, p.49
by Sonia Sanchez
(A Sourcebook of African-American Performance)

Michael Frayn
Mill Hill, London, United Kingdom
September 8, 1933

So many people, with so many different views and so many different voices. And inside each of us so many more people still, all struggling to be heard. For a moment one voice rises above the others, and everyone picks up the tune. And then the cacophony resumes. Until sooner or later another voice is raised…

Brandt, Democracy, p.86
by Michael Frayn

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