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10. On sleeping in the theater
I have enjoyed watching people sleep through my plays. I have enjoyed the sensual fullness of their heads lolling, leaning back, sometimes almost onto my lap. I have wanted to hold their heads as they loll onto my seat, give them a short hair massage. I hope, in these instances, that the play gives them the fullness of a dream. I would like to write a play that purposely puts people to sleep. I would like to import beds into the theater, and couches, and to write a very long play, for a very long nap. If the audience woke for a brief second, they would see something extraordinary on stage, like elephants balancing on horses, and then they would drift back to sleep, and the dream of the elephant would merge with their more private dream. And no one would feel guilty, and no one would blame me, because they were meant to fall asleep, a small gift from me to them.