YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE
Ah, you must be disoriented. You must have been paying attention to your own words instead of mine. You must be at the other end. You must be hearing the inside of your own head. You must be superstitious. You must know I am here? YOU MUST CHANGE YOUR LIFE!
A comedy about the absurdity of life and the words that matter.
THE NOTEBOOKS
Before he died in 2025, Richard Foreman wrote:
I here make available my notebooks in the hopes directors/writers will make use of the material as I do. Choosing, arranging, re-arranging, inventing situations into which the dialogue can be dropped, and ending up with a theatrical performance.
This material is offered freely. I ask no royalty. Because of the unique way I generate plays -- this may mean I myself will still be using from this pool of material in the future.
The only thing I ask is that if you make use of this material in performance:
a) you simply notify me, so I can know if this material is stimulating anyone.
b) any material used for production or publication displays in program or title page -- relatively prominantly -- the statement that the text involved is re-arranged material taken from the notebooks of Richard Foreman.
Sometimes you won't be sure if it's a typo or an artistic choice. That's for you to decide, but be open to the fact that a word or reference that seems askew may indeed be what I intended.
Rehearsal support provided by TO Live, and the Centre for Drama, Theatre, and Performance Studies.