
(a play.)
C: I’m not doing it! Why is this really necessary?
R: Um, well.
C: After all the effort, you know it will just get filed away.
R: Until it’s needed, to… to deal with the crazy stuff.
C: If this is just to control crazy, I say let crazy flourish.
R: Hmm. Well, they have shown that legalizing drugs does not make the drug problem worse. Perhaps you Anarchists have a point.
C: Touché!
(pause)
R: Maybe I’ll just find a template somewhere and copy that. Copy that.
(Gertrude Stein wrote many short plays, often within the context of a longer prose piece. The formats she explored open up the potential to explore dialogue within tightly bounded scenarios.)