"If You Write And You Play, You Need To Ask Someone To Direct. You Can't Do Everything."

Steph offered an improvisation for a scene she wants to write. A scene between God and the Devil playing cards, betting on outrageous things.

Mike and I had a go, with Barbara as the dealer. We had fun together, but the scene didn't really go anywhere. Philippe said rather than God and the Devil it's better to have Hitler and Churchill playing together, or Al Capone and the head of the FBI, and by the end of the play we realise they are a metaphor for God and the Devil,

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"In Latin countries we have a lot of fun to blaspheme."

We had a discussion about what is blasphemous today, as Mark was saying it seems like everything has been blasphemed in England. What is sacred? What is the unsayable? Voldemor-shhhh! ... It depends on where you are I think.

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Vicky and André played a couple walking through a hospital looking for Ward 13 where their daughter was. Philippe got them to take a long time walking through different hallways getting lost. Not frantic, just trying to find Ward 13. 

When they finally found it he got Sam to come out, who is dressed like an AIDS victim in a hospital robe, with a drip, and dark spots on her body. André and Vicky made a bit of small talk with her, and then Sam said "I am positive."

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Charles presented a terminally ill homeless character living in a bin, but it wasn't clear which bastard he wanted to attack. Then Philippe got Charles to stay in the bin, and be visited by his elegant daughter played by Sophia. She had come to visit him. Charles played really casual, and through small talk, announced that he's going to be dying very soon. "Today, tomorrow, any day now. Not really sure." It was a way to say "look at what you do to old people" these days.

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"If you write and you play, you need to ask someone to direct. You can't do everything."

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Lee got up again with his idiotic transvestite. "He has something fantastic but il est cun."

Philippe advised him to find his own theatre. "Not this theatre, but another theatre."

"If you accept that you are special and you sell your idiot you could be great."