anamnesiac

the objects:

a gun
a cigarette
playing cards
a tea cup
fire in any form

the sounds:

a clock chiming
birds chirping
someone singing offstage
silverware clinking

the actions:

tripping over something
an embrace
a slap
whispering
“laughing through tears”

the only text you can use is:

i was so happy.
do you remember?
whatever do you thank has come over her (him) today?
two hundred years from now, i wonder if human kind will still be suffering?
my boot.
do you hear the wind?
we must go on living.
we must work.

you have twenty minutes to make your piece. go.

[tina landau, in anne bogart: viewpoints]