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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 December 2021

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The Metropolis, choking in garbage, burning in flames; with her breathtaking buildings of the dying Babylon, her graffitied subway-trains, free citizens, black people and orthodox Jews, the capital of the existing but unwanted empire.

If you can stand the tropical summer, the crude violence, the empty faces, the unveiled money-battle, the Soho snobbery, the total authority of the Market, you can manage your fate, which is the only tradition here.

We did not want to create a play about New York (especially not about America); we have never wanted to create a play about something, because theatre is not about something but it is from something, it is itself; from a given place, from the social and personal forms of life. It is conceptual and existential at the same time. And it is In and From New York where one can come to speak.

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The Drama Review , Volume 22 , Issue 3: Analysis Issue , September 1978 , pp. 3 - 10
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Copyright © 1978 The Drama Review

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