| Page | Story/Action | Where | Who | Props | Ideas | |
| Zurich 1917, 1974 | ||||||
| Blackout/Carr enters in darkness and sits in wheel chair | WW1 most horrible century 74 echos | |||||
| Lights up to reveal Carr sleeping | ||||||
| We also see most of set covered in a sheet and small lights inside of visible piles to create odd geometry | ||||||
| Carr begins to dream: | ||||||
| His dreams are revealed in projections on the sheet. We see: | ||||||
| 1 | dreamlike projections of swiss landscape/zurich/perhaps other story based subjects | |||||
| 2 | dream begins to coalesce. We see the distorted exterior of a library | |||||
| 3 | fades into interior which is version of a photo of the set without sheet | |||||
| 4 | actors enter through split in sheet that is in the same place as door in projection | |||||
| 5 | Sheet flies up behind proscenium | |||||
| Tzara sit on the stair, Cecily sits at the small table with Lenin at the large for the prologue | ||||||
| Prologue | Library | Tzara | Books | |||
| 17 | Cutting Up words | Joyce | Papers (w/writing) | |||
| Cecily enters from stacks | Gwen | Pencils | ||||
| Librarianess emerges | Cecily | Scissors | Cecily have some secret door in | |||
| 20 | Nadya | Hat | books from which to shhh? | |||
| Lenin | Table | |||||
| 2 identical folders | ||||||
| scraps of paper | ||||||
| Old Carr | Transition? | Carr | Slide Show? | |||
| 21 | Introduces Lenin, Tzara, Joyce | 1974 | Big Book? | |||
| in a Wheel Chair? | Pull Down Chart? Or screen? | |||||
| stand up from wheel chair? | Sillouette onto which is projected | |||||
| each man? | ||||||
| Diagram of each man with parts | ||||||
| divided like a pig for butcher? | ||||||
| different for each man? | ||||||
| Tzara's sketch mixed up parts? | ||||||
| "Still Center of the Wheel of War" | ||||||
| Bennett Enters with Tea set | Carr's Place | Carr | tea set (3?) | Clothes references | ||
| 26 | war discourse | Bennett | cucumber sandwiches | Can there be clothes on his part | ||
| do we see telegrams | of the set or intertwined? | |||||
| newspapers? | "the war, always the war" | |||||
| business card | "time slips" | |||||
| salver | cookoo clock on the set? | |||||
| swiss cheese | more than one? | |||||
| sandwiches | "classes" | |||||
| newspapers and telegrams in a | ||||||
| huge pile? | ||||||
| Bennet Leaves | Carr | |||||
| 32 | Carr comments | Bennett | dadadadada rhythm? | |||
| Tzara enters | Gwen | nonesensical but regular rhythm | ||||
| Gwen Joyce enter | Joyce | |||||
| 1) "Rumanian/Irish nonsense" | ||||||
| Gwen and Tzara | ||||||
| money from Joyce for play | ||||||
| "manic" | ||||||
| Joyce in verse | ||||||
| 2) Ernest version | ||||||
| discussion of art and who is or isnt | ||||||
| and why | ||||||
| art and war | "like hearing every other line of | |||||
| we're here because we're here.. | two cups for tea | cathechism | ||||
| 3) "normal" | cucumber sandwiches | |||||
| library card discussion | library card | "foreign literature includes English" | ||||
| cave paintings | ||||||
| coffee mill | ||||||
| Joyce and Gwen come in | Carr | cooking pot | ||||
| 47 | Joyce gets Carr to lend money | Gwendolyn | small papers for | |||
| be Algernon | Joyce | Joyces costume | ||||
| Tzara smashes stuff | Tzara | from hat: | ||||
| discussion of Art | white carnation | |||||
| silk hankies | ||||||
| rabbit | can Tzara knock over books? | |||||
| flags | ||||||
| Spain | knives in books? | |||||
| US | flying knives? | |||||
| France | ||||||
| Italy | ||||||
| Russia | ||||||
| Old Carr | Old Carr | Old Carr | tattered court | |||
| 63 | Discussion of Algernon | document | ||||
| Act 2 | Joyce (us) | Cecily's Desk | places for Joyce and Carr and Ce. | |||
| 66 | Cecily's Lenin lecture | Carr | table at which Lenin | to be seen roaming around US | ||
| Lenin | works same as | |||||
| Cecily/Carr flirtation | Cecily | begnning? | special place for her to do the lecture? | |||
| 70 | 1) Tristan vs. Jack | Nadya | Lectern? | |||
| 2) stripper scene | lights all over set | |||||
| 3) make love during Nadya's | neon girls girls girls? | |||||
| speech (Carr, Cecily) | knock over books in their passion? | |||||
| BALL with cone head _Tzara | see bits of them behind the pile? | |||||
| place for them to pop their heads | ||||||
| through to listen? | ||||||
| books in front of table | ||||||
| Old Carr continues Nadya's | Old Carr | |||||
| 81 | speech | table on wheels with plug in it for books | ||||
| Young Carr, Tzara | Anywhere | |||||
| 82 | Nadya still speaking | library? | projections of people | |||
| lecture style? | ||||||
| Train Scene | Lenin Speech | Lenin | steal toy train idea? | |||
| 84 | Lenin's speech | among books? | ||||
| Lenin climb set for speech? | ||||||
| mimic photo | ||||||
| blacked out versions of Kamenev | ||||||
| and Trotsky? | ||||||
| fold profile up from floor? | ||||||
| flash? | ||||||
| Back to Nadya | ||||||
| 86 | Nadya, Lenin conversation | when Nadya talks about Lenin | ||||
| in prision, light in the set like | ||||||
| window? | ||||||
| Limerick | Back to Carr's? | Bennett | champagne for two | |||
| 90 | fight over Carr | Cecily | on tray | |||
| Gwendolyn | ||||||
| Carr gets caught | Bennett | |||||
| 94 | when Tristan enters | Cecily | ||||
| switch of folders revealed | Gwen | |||||
| Tzara | ||||||
| Carr | ||||||
| dance | mirror ball? | |||||
| 97 | ||||||
| Old Carrs | Old Carrs | Old Carr | tea things? | back to wheel chair? | ||
| 98 | Bennett was really counsel | Old Cecily | ||||