30 Plays in 60 Minutes!
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excerpt from Greg Allen's preface to 100 Neo-Futurist Plays from Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind...
"As you notice the subtitle, '30 Plays in 60 Minutes,' you brilliantly arrive at the conclusion that these are very short plays. 'Why not call them scenes,' you might well ask, 'or even skits?' Because (the obvious answer) they are not. They are plays. And we are adamant about this point."
"You see, we, the Neo-Futurists - like our namesakes the Italian Futurists and their relative contemporaries the Dadaists and the German expressionists (to say nothing of the likes of Samuel Beckett, Kenneth Koch, and Howard Barker) - believe that you can, in fact, write a two- minute play with just as much depth and humor and poingnance as something that taks five acts, twenty characters, fifteen set changes, and two hours and ten minutes to complete. Perhaps - dare we say it? - we can achieve even more."
"Neo-Futurism is based on the concept that the more sincere and genuine the performers are on stage, the greater will be your identification with the unadorned people and issues before you. Hence, we embrace a fom of non-illusory theater in order to present our lives and ideas as directly as possible. We do not aim to 'suspend the audience's disbelief' but to create a world where the stage is a continuation of daily life."
"To encourage us to reflect our current lives and experiences on stage as directly as possible, we also create between two and twelve new plays a week. Nothing ever gets the chance to become fully predictable."
"The theater is not scheduled to pass over any large bodies of water within the hour, but if a nautical landing were attempted, the person next to you is your best bet at a floatation device."
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This is a snapshot of some glorious moment, now long since relegated to the past. This was the first web site highlighting the exploits of the Neo-Futurists and their primary production, Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind, circa 1993... when I was younger... when the Web was younger.