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Beware: This play features 22 characters, dull and crude humor, and lots of running around. Yet, these are all descants over the real melody: a physical experiment played out on an allegorical scale, to answer the question: how can a full cast make sure that seven stopwatches don't count backwards to zero? The play's dialogue is an experimentation with simplified directness, but this simplicity in speech is paired with rapidly permutating stage-wide compositions, as if the actors orbit around each other.
From the text of Seven Stopwatches...
⚫"E: What's the meaning of this?
A: Press the button, please.
E: What happens if we don't?
D: Do you want to find out?
E: Sure, let it play.
D: It's almost out!
D clicks stopwatch 4.
A breathes easy at stopwatch 2.
E: What did you do that for? We were gonna find out what happens.
D: Whaddya want? Somebody's gotta do it.
E: Bah. It's a performance art exhibition. That's all it is.
E leans against staircase, stage left, catching a glimpse of B.
E: The bloke's got you hooked on this, too, huh?
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